You cannot incarcerate yourself out of an opioid emergency. You have to treat your way out of it.
Steve Beshear: “You cannot incarcerate yourself out of an opioid emergency. You have to treat your way out of it.”
On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
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Beshear advocates for treatment over incarceration to combat the opioid crisis.
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