Two articles I wrote this spring explore areas where the justice system and public health collide, to the detriment of both, —but where changes in approach are slowly bringing them into sync. For the first, I wrote about incarcerated juveniles, many of whom need treatment for mental illness more than time behind bars, and the Aichhorn residential treatment facility in Brooklyn that is trying to deliver those services to them. For the second, I wrote about the surge in heroin and prescription opiate overdose deaths afflicting the U.S., the difficult politics of the remarkable antidote naloxone, and novel approaches that the state of New Mexico has pioneered to make the drug more available.
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