Josh Barocas, an Infectious Disease Physician at CU Medical School agreed. “Strong scientific evidence supports that criminalization simply doesn’t work,” he said. Barocas says the bill will have the opposite effect of saving lives. He says people who don’t receive treatment in prison will come out and overdose.
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