A cerebral palsy patient was not getting his pain medication:
A Madison County Jail policy that forbids anyone from bringing prescription medicine to inmates, even if the drugs are delivered by a doctor, prompted a doctor to post $1,000 to bail out a patient who suffers from cerebral palsy and was apparently denied painkillers by jail staff.
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Come on warden!! I’ve got severe glaucoma! I need this weed!
New Castle, Pennsylvania [ and undoubtedly in many other locations ] the guards bring the drugs into the jail-where they are sold and bartered for cigarettes and ‘outside money.’
One inmate recently died of an oxycontin overdose.
So there’s really no big worry about doctors getting medications to patients.
The drugs will get in freely enough without anybody’s help.
I have no doubt that some prisons are like that, but jails tend to be quite different…
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