As the nausea, shaking and sweating grew worse, she said her pleas for help were met with just laughter and indifference from guards. Patricia Herring has now become a self-described "mom on a mission" to push for greater resources for addiction treatment in correctional facilities. "If he had been given medication-assisted treatment when he entered, I don't know, maybe things would have been different," she said. With no organized opposition, the debate over supporting medication-assisted treatment in correctional settings comes down to dollars and cents. Albany County became the first county in the state outside of New York City to offer medication-assisted treatment.

Source: ABC News March 19, 2019 20:08 UTC