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It's all well and good getting meds for withdrawal but addiction is a two fold illness...I know, I've done a jail detox. Without mental/spiritual help it is part of the course predominantly. Addiction sucks.

These people who work in the jail are not doctors, they're disgusting and cruelty from them traumatized repeatedly to these women and men, who are human beings.....🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹💔💔🥀🥀

This is true in Hopkinsville ky. Jail also. This is so wrong. Jailers are not dr.s

When people say withdrawals is like the flu, 🤦🏻‍♀️ that’s a lie! I’ve had the flu, and it’s nothing compared to withdrawals!! I mean nothing! Yes when you have the flu, you feel bad, but withdrawals is like being tortured alive. At least with the flu, you can lay down and just deal with, withdrawals your heart is racing you’re sweating profusely your muscles and bones ache, your stomach feels like hot coals being raked back and forth, almost like contractions. Thats just some of it. You can’t sleep, you have the 💩s it’s the most awful thing let me tell you. I’d take the flu any day of the week!

Just say NO
Whatever happen to that D.A.R.E. it worked for the crack epidemic right? Or no?

NOT compassionately/medically detoxing people is INCREDIBLY cruel, especially coming from the expert DOCTOR'S that won't or don't support it. THEY may not physically have experienced it but medically the know EXACTLY the agony it causes and their pledge is to "do no harm". Making a patient go cold turkey is mentally, physically and emotionally is EXTREMELY painful and they know this.

Good People doing 'Good Things ! Withrawels are cruel, and toture ! I'd rather take up arms on the battlefield's front line, than to be made to withdrawel! Our system is more concerned with "controlling people's lives", rather than helping a torchard soal !

The obsese nurse needs her license revoked. She is part of the problem. She clearly enjoys the suffering of others.

You guys are saints! People in jail need MAT treatment, I speak from experience. Please continue to help get this program throughout the country in the jails and prisons.

I’m starting my detox tomorrow. Started snorting real perc 30s daily then turned into 10-15 fake perc 30s a day. Then started snorting heroin/fent 2 years ago. Spending $1000 a week on that crap. It controls my life. It’s the worst thing you could ever put yourself through. I pray I make it out and I pray that whoever is in my situation gets through it aswell💙 love all 💙

Golden brown, texture like sun.

Dr's should be held responsible for getting us on opiates, then take it away then we're forced to go to heroin so we're so sick. Suboxone should be in every jail. Dr's ruined my life, suboxone saved it. I hold Dr's 100 % for the heroin and fent epidemic

Detoxing in jail is the worst ever I felt like I was dieng

why is she singing

I don’t wanna hear it, when I went through jail 20 or so times back when I was struggling with my dependency issues, there was no such thing as Suboxone in jail. You cold turkeyed.

Opiate withdrawal is not like the flu at all it’s much worse

Denying someone their medication is a special kind of evil.

Tylenol don’t do anything for withdrawals. You might as well give them a lollipop

It's not like the flu

What about methadone? That's the worst of them! Or what about barbituate withdrawal? What do you do for that? However, if they would give suboxone in jail that would be a game changer. There is zero reason someone should have to cold turkey detox from anything against their will without treatment of any kind.

I started Opiods thanks to the VA quacks. After 20 yrs Trump told the VA no more Norcos. I was using 100’s a month. So I go on the streets of LA to get my fix. 1 pill $20. I used 4-10/day. Every morning you are either getting cash or buying pills. I’m 72 and Still an Addict. Don’t Start. If you are an addict STOP. Don’t be me, Old, broke, sick. And the pills today, fentanyl is crap!

That's a joke comparing it to flu

It is inhumane to let addicts go through withdrawals in jail. I believe they should be medicated while detoxing. People can die from withdrawals.

Im on the 3rd day of withdrawal from Fentanyl.....im at the hospital right now cant imagine being in jail for this

It is not like the flu. It is nowhere near like the flu. It is 10000x worse.

This is heartbreaking 😢

I remember one of my old best friends was an addict and she once said to me and I quote “I could never give this up because it’s too hard” to that i replied and truly believe that it would be so much harder going through this again and again, stoping would be the easiest way out. Or you withdraw, start again, withdraw start again and on it goes and goes. Stoping once and for all would have to be the easier way out!!!

Wendy the nurse seems real cold like she gets joy knowing people are sick.

Not allowing methadone or suboxone in jail should be illegal

Almost everyone goes in jail comes out and gets high . This is crazy they don't give them treatment in jail . Also methodon is cheap and they could give that to help them to not be sick. Prayers understanding

Pharma companies like the sackler family should be systematically taken apart financially, every last dime and put towards this nation wide epidemic. They built a fortune like never seen on destroying our country with crippling addiction, and did with knowing malice.

Americas solution to everything - stick up a US Flag.

I hope they have this medication in NM. My half sister is in jail again. It’s so sad.

I hate when these ppl say I NEED SUBOXONE.....yeah, because youre not mentally ready. Now with fentanyl, you have to wait days or seeks. So theg give you methadond

If I owned a rehab. I would make it a 3 month inpatient. On one side you have ppl weaning off based off what their levels of DOC is... and taper fast with some great comfort meds. Then... when they are 80% less in blood volume of the drug.... I'll slowly begin with the comfort meds (10 of them) and then peak it on day 4.... (Day 45 in rehab) on day 10 slowly taper them off the comfort meds faster then a drug taper.... keep them on clonidine and gabapentin for a few more days and stop that slowly with CBT AND DBT Therapy /massages and just great natural ways to boost adrenaline.

Been in jail ti detox seventeen times. They gave us nothing. Ibuprofen. Thay is it. And theyd come to the cell and laugh at us amd tell us we deserve this. My city is violently sick and terrible for addicts. I watched three women unalive themselves from the withdrawal ALONE

Hey you don’t want to detox in jail don’t go

I don't feel sorry for you people at all. You definitely derserve this. They played. they paid.

They should really have help in all jails for any kind of detox because detoxing can be deadly, especially alcohol. 5- 10 days in detox on meds in jail is what it should be and the person going thru detox shouldn't be out with others either While going thru that detox. Also, if a person has to be on detox meds longer then they should be called and brought to another room, the meds given to them by the nurse and then they sit there until the meds are devolved or just give the injection for detox and don't worry with any pills or strips. The meds given in jail aren't watched closely enough when being given to the person, any meds for that matter.

I can tell that old white woman is a c*nt, probably worked non-profit and has a completely backwards view on drug addiction. Also withdrawals are nothing like the flu unless your on really low doses, it’s about 100 times worse and last a a lot lot longer, at least in my experience. But hope everyone’s doing well and is sober or living there best life!
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Everytime I've ever been to jail I've had to kick in there. Since the first time I went to jail when I was 18. I would say that's one of the absolute worst environments to withdrawal. It's better than being homeless and withdrawing on the street though. I'm traumatized from that horrible feeling.

They didn't either medication because some organizations don't like to be proven wrong

It's like a flu you get once every four days until you fix

It’s about time jails started admitting people do die from heroin withdrawals. I’ve known several to die in jail. I almost did.

Bad case of the flu?? That’s the understatement of the year.

The woman running the jail needs to be replaced. She had nothing to say except excuses and finger pointing in all directions, but could not show that she took accountability for her own misgivings. All of the women in that system will suffer and some will die as a result of that level of incompetence. It's disgusting.

Try drink kratom,kratom is alternative for the drug addict,and many my friend stop taking heroin and morphine after drink kratom

The flu times a thousand and the flu last for a few days maybe withdrawals last a lot long the worst feeling ever imaginable

Please, singing lady, stop it.

Snohomish county Washington Had No methadone treatment facilities. So patients from neighboring counties were denied in their jail. People who found themselves in Snohomish jail went thru horrific withdrawal Where tey became far too ill to even keep their in jail court dates. This extended their incarceration considerably. A serious month of hard withdrawal can cause PTSD along with other life threatening ailments.