Drug may give those leaving jail a better shot at recovery [BostonGlobe.com]

Samantha Sangenito 12/14/154:00 AM

Three days before his release from the Barnstable County Correctional Facility, Ryan Lonergan received a powerful injection, intended to change his life.

He took the shot willingly, because he knew that for 28 days afterward, the drug, Vivitrol, would make it impossible to get high on the Percocet that had been his life’s downfall. Now, Lonergan would not have to decide each day whether to use drugs. Vivitrol made the decision for him, and cleared a path to recovery.

[For more of this story, written by Felice J. Freyer, go to https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...J2n7AtaCP/story.html]

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