A lot of this running is due to the knowledge they will go through withdrawal in jail.
When I was doing EMS, prisoners would recite a litany of drugs they were taking. Of course, they lost the prescription script for them but they really needed them.
Combining the technological functions of an ankle monitor and a taser might be helpful. (Not as explosive as the neck collars of the "Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14" movie).