Early Medicaid enrollment aims to provide a “warm handoff” for inmates struggling with addiction.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Damian Bujanda is 17 days sober.
He’s been in and out of addiction since he was 15 years old. It has been a 28-year struggle that intensified after returning from the Iraq war with post-traumatic stress disorder and turning to self-medication.
“I’ll go out. I’ll be clean for a year, almost a year. Then I’ll relapse, and I’ll be on the run,” Bujanda said from the Clallam County Jail. “I’m done. Everything from people around you dying, losing relationships. It takes everything away.”
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