You probably have heard about the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office’s Law Enforcement Embedded Social Worker program that embeds social workers with deputies who contact the homeless and offers drug addiction and mental health treatment. While Snohomish County is a leader in developing this type of approach to reducing drug addiction, other jurisdictions in the US are also adopting this new way of trying to reduce addiction.
Last night, CBS News’ 60 Minutes aired a segment on the police department in Huntington West Virginia which is using an addiction counselor on drug raids. The police department changed its approach when one day the town experienced 26 overdoses due to a batch of fentanyl laced heroin in just 4 hours.
Read the transcript of the segment below if you did not see last night’s episode of 60 minutes.
CBS News:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-bring-addiction-counselor-on-drug-raids-to-fight-opioid-crisis/
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