It s been a long night for the staff and one inmate. earlier i just swallow a glass thing, and y all still won t give me my medication. joseph mayberry swallowed the arm of his eyeglasses because the jail would not give him the same medication his doctor prescribed on the outside. emergency room doctors were able to remove it, but now there s another problem. i ain t wearing that [ bleep ]. once he came back, he still wasn t going on suicide watch. i tried to talk to him. lieutenant tried to talk to him. there was just no giving in. mayberry refuses to exchange his clothes for the tear-proof gown inmates on suicide watch are required to wear. it s to assure they won t hang or otherwise harm themselves. he has to go into that suicide gown based on what he has done. he has to.
jarrett requested to be in protective custody because he says some older inmates were making advances toward him in general population. but you he says he didn t know protection equates to confinement. i have anxiety disorder. i ve been diagnosed and take medication for it which is an anti-anxiety. it s also used to help me sleep because you i don t sleep very well. and they just haven t been able to get it for me. i ve tried since the very first day i ve gotten here. jarrett says his small cell makes him feel claustrophobic and has caused him to pass out. he wants to get back to general population. but it s not that simple. this is a request to be removed from protective custody. for classification, we have to research this inmate and to find out what type of person he can be around that he won t feel intimidated. from what i understand, he s new you to the system. he has a tendency to suffer from what i ve been told from anxiety attacks. we re not trained in any way to
As recently as saturday. i want to go straight to you. a recovering addict and social worker, you wrote this wonderful piece for the atlantic. your lead line not saying it s ever a good time, but a particularly bad time to be injecting heroin user. welcome. thank you for having me. just to get everyone caught up with what jason carroll was reporting, the drugs that were found in his apartment. take a look at the graphic we have. prescription bottles, addiction treatment drug. for adhd and another for anti-anxiety and another muscle relax ant that he didn t appear to have a prescription for. 50 envelopes with ace of spades, believed to be heroin. several pacts branded ace of hearts. i want to ask you about heroin branding in a second, but when you see the list of drugs, what
And then i started in the nightclub business and wore out my adrenals all the time and started having a lot of hormonal problems. and then kind of turned into somebody i didn t recognize. i would weep and i would snap at my husband and that s not my nature. i m an upbeat, happy person. and i started gaining weight for no reason. and i was bloating all the time. and i went from doctor to doctor to doctor. i was offered antidepressants, anti-anxiety, cholesterol-lowering, diuretics, this whole everything but what you really needed to keep yourself healthy. then i found an endocrine ologist, drove two hours to her, with my blood work. when i got there, she said, you poor thing. she said, oh, your estrogens are too level and progesterone is almost nonexistent. and that s when this journey of natural bioidentical hormones began. the thing about what i really believe if i knew then what i
Consequences. douglas kennedy with the story. reporter: marine corporaldren iraq in 2005. temper tantrums, tremors. reporter: unfortunately says his father stanley, he could not survive the drug cocktail prescribed to him by his caregivers at the department of veterans affairs. once they treat you for ptsd, the first line of treatment seems to be a series of medications. we call them lethal cocktails. if it doesn t work, they increase the dosage and give you more and more and more. reporter: andrew was prescribe 19 different medications from the v.a. and was on five drugs for insomnia. when he accidentally died in his sleep in 2011. a cocktail that included the anti-depressant paxil. the anti-anxiety and the anti-psychotic. it is inexcusable to be giving our military and our vets