ONDCP: Medicaid to Be Allowed for Drug Treatment in Prisons

U.S. News (2/21) -- The federal government is planning to allow states to use Medicaid funds to provide drugs to combat addiction and other medical services for people at state jails and prisons [...] Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (OPNDCP), recently announced that states would be encouraged to submit proposals for how to use money from the joint federal-state low-income health insurance program for incarcerated people. Cont.