Tag: Withdrawal
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Correctional Healthcare Expert’s Testimony About the Risk of Overdose Admitted
S.F., a former detainee in the Denton County Jail, asserted claims for alleged violations of her constitutional rights on account of the jail’s treatment of her withdrawal from opioids during two separate incarcerations and the alleged denial by the jail of medication for Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”). Plaintiff filed a motion to strike or limit…
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Correctional Healthcare Expert Witness’ Testimony on the Risks of MOUD in Correctional Settings Excluded
A district judge in West Virginia barred the Correctional Healthcare Expert from opining that there was no evidence of medical malpractice, deliberate indifference, discrimination, or negligence. Joseph Taylor has struggled with opioid addiction for nearly half his life. He is diagnosed with Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) and is treating this chronic brain disease with Medications…
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Court Partly Admits Nursing Expert Witness’ Assertion that the Nursing Care was Substandard
A district judge in Washington ruled that the testimony advanced by an expert on nursing practice was relevant to the Plaintiff’s argument that Chelan County Regional Justice Center’s medical care of inmates is substandard. Facts of the Case: Defendant Chelan County Regional Justice Center (“CCRJC”) accepted Blair Nelson into its jail on November 21, 2020.…
