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Seminole jail’s innovative addiction treatment program aims to combat opioid epidemic

Por: Orlando Sentinel Crime February 13, 2023

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Eva Viruet has been to rehab before. She’s also spent more nights in jail than she’d like to admit. But her time in Seminole County’s Accepting Change Through Treatment, or ACTT, program — a hybrid between inpatient drug rehabilitation and incarceration — has been something different. “My daughter will call, and she’ll say, ‘Why are you so happy to be in jail?’” Viruet, 45, said one recent December afternoon in Seminole... + full article



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