“We have found here in Connecticut and elsewhere in the world this is a problem — that the first three weeks or so after people are released from prison, their chances of dying are extremely high if they reinitiate opioid use,” Heimer said. “They come out … they go back to using opioids and use far more than is needed considering their state of lower tolerance. And because they are ashamed of relapsing, they tend to use those drugs alone, so there’s no one there to call 911 or administer naloxone and save them.”