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NASHVILLE — A erstwhile Tennessee correctional serviceman volition person $160,000 successful backmost wage and damages aft helium was forced to resign for taking Suboxone to dainty his opioid usage disorder, if a justice approves a landmark consent decree filed successful national tribunal successful Nashville connected Wednesday.

It is the archetypal clip the U.S. Department of Justice has utilized the Americans with Disabilities Act to settee a assertion that an worker was discriminated against for taking a prescribed medicine to dainty cause addiction, according to the department.

AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson successful Washington authorities contributed to this report.

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