Jails struggle to prevent overdose deaths as fentanyl is smuggled in, and treatment isn't available PlayAmerican jails aren’t as secure as you might think. (Roberto E. Rosales for Here & Now/2019)So far this year, there have been 168 suspected overdoses in Maricopa County jails, and the medical examiner has ruled that six inmate deaths were drug-related. Sometimes it’s the people arrested and booked into jails who smuggle drugs inside to feed their habits. Methadone and Suboxone are serious drugs in their own right that can be smuggled from a jail’s clinic into the housing units. He got methadone treatment in jail, and he said he’s still sober more than a year after getting out.