The Metropolitan Detention Center Healthcare Authority added nearly $700,000 to the jail’s addiction clinic for the next fiscal year — upping Bernalillo County’s overall budget by several hundred thousand.

The addiction clinic received $4.8 million in funding last year. In late July, the jail’s Healthcare Authority approved an increase of $700,000, for a total budget of $5.5 million for this fiscal year.

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