This photo from December 2022 provided by Kent Sawyer shows Kendra Sawyer. Kendra took her own life in the Deschutes County jail in Oregon in February 2023, as she was in the throes of opioid withdrawal. A year later, Kent Sawyer is left wondering whether his daughter, troubled as she was, might still be alive if the jail hadn't failed to provide her with medicine to ease the agony of her withdrawal, as he claimed in a recently filed lawsuit. (Kent Sawyer via AP)
FILE - Packets of buprenorphine, a drug used to control heroin and opioid cravings, are shown in Greenfield, Mass., July 23, 2018. As the Oregon Legislature considers overhauling the state's pioneering drug decriminalization law, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are pushing for more funding for medications used to treat opioid addiction in jails. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
In this undated image provided by Haylee Wendling, family members of Colin Conner pose for a photo as they hold an image of Colin. Conner, who struggled with opioid addiction for years, lost his life to a fentanyl overdose in June 2023, just days after being released from a Salt Lake City jail. Conner's father said the jail had discontinued his methadone prescription, causing him to go through agonizing withdrawal and prompting cravings to return while he was behind bars. (Haylee Wendling via AP)
FILE - A person holds drug paraphernalia near the Washington Center building on SW Washington St. in downtown Portland, Ore. on April 4, 2023. A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers are working to boost funding for jails to provide medication used to treat opioid addiction. The move comes as the fentanyl crisis has pushed the Legislature to consider overhauling the state's pioneering drug decriminalization law by once again making it a crime to possess small amounts of drugs. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, File)
In this September 2021 image provided by Kent Sawyer, Kendra Sawyer poses for a photo with her father Kent Sawyer. Kendra Sawyer took her own life in the Deschutes County jail in Oregon in February 2023, as she was in the throes of opioid withdrawal. A year later, Kent is left wondering whether his daughter, troubled as she was, might still be alive if the jail hadn't failed to provide her with medicine to ease the agony of her withdrawal, as he claimed in a recently filed lawsuit. (Kent Sawyer via AP)
In this Nov. 8, 2014, image provided by Shon Allen, Colin Conner poses for a photo at the flight center in Bountiful, Utah. Conner, who struggled with opioid addiction for years, lost his life to a fentanyl overdose in June 2023, just days after being released from a Salt Lake City jail. Conner's father said the jail had discontinued his methadone prescription, causing him to go through agonizing withdrawal and prompting cravings to return while he was behind bars. (Shon Allen via AP)
FILE - Newly-released inmate George Ballentine holds his prescription medicine Suboxone outside a pharmacy on July 23, 2018, in Greenfield, Mass. As the Oregon Legislature considers overhauling the state's pioneering drug decriminalization law, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are pushing for more funding for medications used to treat opioid addiction in jails. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
In this September 2021 image provided by Kent Sawyer, Kendra Sawyer poses for a photo with her father Kent Sawyer. Kendra Sawyer took her own life in the Deschutes County jail in Oregon in February 2023, as she was in the throes of opioid withdrawal. A year later, Kent is left wondering whether his daughter, troubled as she was, might still be alive if the jail hadn't failed to provide her with medicine to ease the agony of her withdrawal, as he claimed in a recently filed lawsuit. (Kent Sawyer via AP)