evidence: But after his last release, in December 2018, Jones decided he had to make a change. Ten friends, most of them recently released inmates, had overdosed and died right after getting out of jail. Such overdoses are common because while inside, drug-addicted inmates either go through withdrawal or take smuggled drugs — usually Suboxone, a prescription opioid substitute. As a result, when released, Jones says, "your tolerance is so low, you can’t take as much. You get out and, bam, next thing you know you’re dead." [...] It’s part of a national effort that began with a San Francisco pilot program that started in 2006 and was bolstered by a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine. That research found that in the first two weeks after release, inmates coming out of prison in Washington state were 12 times as likely to die of any cause and 129 times more likely to die of an overdose than other Washington residents matched by age, sex and race.