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Interview with John

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
John: Essentially yes . I had to take diabetes meds and anti-biotics for a diabetically-worsened toe wound/infection . I did receive - pretty much always , anyway - those meds daily and did get out of the block most days to go up to the nurse's station maybe 100 yards away (I didn't mention that before when I mentioned being in , essentially , the block 24/7 but it's come up here .) t get a new bandage/whatever on my infected toe . By the end of the main 3ish wks , my toe had maybe 40% healed it has never been that much healed since then at least the receiving treatment and the fact that , quite frankly , we were in that block essentially 24/7 with all of us being left idle allowed me to lie down and rest and elevate my bad foot .

JM: How did you get your medications?
John: They would bring them to the door , as I said , maybe you'd go slightly outside the door , or stay inside the threshold . A few times I received " lesser " bandagng just outside the door . When I went to the nurse's station I would sometimes wait before/after my treatment in the office proper or sometimes in either of two holding cells within the nurses' . You're in jail , dude ! A lot of cons were on meds of one stripe or another . At one point , the thought of taking psych meds was brought up to me , I said that I did not want them and had had bad experiences w/psych meds in the past thankfully they didn't pursue it after that .

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
John: Never witnessed any .

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