Cold Cold Turkey –

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 – The ACLU filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Kansas on September 6, and argues that the BOP’s denial of buprenorphine to Crews violates the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution against “cruel and unusual punishment.” It puts Crews at risk of withdrawal, relapse and overdose, the ACLU said. 

The ACLU noted that the federal government already recognizes medication-assisted treatments like buprenorphine as the standard of care for opioid use disorder. Federal prosecutors have already launched investigations of state and local prisons or jails that similarly denied people such treatments. 

Although this lawsuit blazes a trail at the federal level, this is not the first time the ACLU has taken legal action on this issue. Filterreported in 2018 on an ACLU lawsuit against county jails in Washington, Maine and Massachusetts.

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