Judge Pushes Opioid Treatment Program

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A southeast Michigan leader in the fight against opioid addiction says there’s a lack of urgency in what she calls one of the biggest health issues facing the country. Macomb County District Judge Linda Davis is the head of Families Against Narcotics, and says the stigma surrounding addiction isn’t helping.

“It seems to me like we’re dragging our feet,” Davis said. “We’re not putting the effort into it, the immediate effort that we did with the Ebola crisis, with the H1N1, with the AIDS crisis.”

Davis helped start the “Hope Not Handcuffs” program. It places addicts in treatment. She says she wants to make it a statewide campaign.