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Medications

Interview with Reggie, Sarah, Brenda, Mike and Will

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Reggie: no
Sarah: Oh, this is a bad one. My attorney brought my Synthroid, Aleve, and supplements (Osteo-Biflex, etc) from home, but the guards said they couldn't find them. When I check out, they were all in my garmet bag. They brought me what they said was Synthroid, but it wasn't the same each time, and I'm not sure it was the right dose. I can't take the generic. They tried to give me meds I did not want, like tranquilizers and low blood pressure medicine. I refused. My blood pressure had skyrocketed on intake, but they would not give me any information on the low BP medicine they wanted me to take. I continued to have hi BP problems for 2+ years. The med they wanted to give me was in a catagory of another that actually made by BP go up. They refused to allow me to see my own physician after I passed out and fell.
Brenda: not a first you had to show out frist to get the med you were on
Mike: if you needed meds you would report the officer watching the block, sometime that week, they will get to you , maybe
Will: Not even close. The medical staff was impossible to get hold of and they took almost everyone off all the medications they had been prescribed coming in.

JM: How did you get your medications?
Reggie: You received medications from nurse when ever you were suppose to take them.
Sarah: The nurse came around with a tray of med cups for each inmate around 8 am and 8 pm. It seemed she had enough for the whole floor. They always tried to give me tranquilizer, which I refused. I believe it is something they give all the inmates. I objected, saying they have drug problems coming into the jail, and they don't need to be making more. They tried to get me to take 2 Aleve twice a day, where I normally take 1 a day or sometimes 2. I took 2 a day only so the nurse would come by twice a day instead of once. I had a very hard time getting them to monitor my BP.
Brenda: nu sue or your family have to bring it to you or you didn't get your med you took whether give you
Mike: after you got a medication plan, daily. but the medical team there is snobs who hate their job and love the paychecks
Will: I had to buy over the counter stuff like ibuprofen and allergy pills from commissary. If you needed real prescription medication then you had better come up with a good song and dance because you were not getting anything there.

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Reggie: Solitary Confinement
Sarah: I don't know. They push tranquilizers, so I don't know why they'd punish inmates for taking them.
Brenda: you would get put in lock down and get more time time from the judge and had to stay in your cell along
Mike: punishment : solitary confinement everyone sold their meds. its just another way to get by jail bring the worst in you. i learned real drug slinging there
Will: People were randomly drug tested and they got sent to the hole for failing the tests. In the last month I was there, several guys all failed the tests and a few weeks later it was found that the tests were coming up with false positives and several guys had been sent to the hole for weeks because of it.

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