text: Listen Folks, I’ve been a criminal defense attorney for 33 years in the State of Alaska.  I’ve usually lost a client to drugs every year or so for the past 12 years.  Mixing drugs will eventually kill you...  I am all in favor of any drug that helps a person get off heroin or similar drugs. If you were the addicts parents, spouse or children, you constantly are in fear that your family member will die every day.  Once a person is stable and is able to titrate off opiates with the help of their physician  or  if they are in jail and off narcotics for at least 7 days, they should start Vivitrol.  I’ve represented many clients who agreed to start Vivitrol and after their first 30 days, their lives take a turn for the best and they have their lives back...  I have worked with Michael Eldrige and his company is very open to helping people get the medication they need. Medicaid or insurance will currently pay for the drug unless Trump takes that away too.