Prison officers of Reddit, how do inmates cope with drug and alcohol withdrawal after being locked up?
Posted Oct 15, 2016, 12:05 PM UTC
710
Everyone seems to be different. Some people are really angry, most seem to just sleep a lot. Withdrawing from alcohol is the strangest. They go into this crazy hallucination phase like I've never seen before. Alcohol I guess is the worst to withdraw from and is the only withdrawals that you can for from. So I'm told.
7
Benzo DT's lead to a horrible death as well. Interestingly enough, Benzodiazepines work really well at also treating alcohol withdrawal and/or Delirium Tremens.
2
Good luck getting those in prison.
0
That's true, alcohol is the worst and most deadly thing to withdrawal from
2
How long does it usually take them to come down/get better?
1
Sometimes it's a day or two, sometimes it a week. Seems different every time.
2
Most of them sleep it off. Medical comes and checks on them every four hours or so to give them meds and they go back to sleep. We have to check on them every 15 minutes to ensure they are still breathing and haven't tried to hang up but for the most part they will sit in there cell and sleep or vomit.
2
The question would be better titled Detention Officers (whom work for county/city funded jails). We Correctional Officers (whom work for state funded prisons) don't deal with street withdrawals because inmates spend a lot of time at county while going through the court process.
2
They buy drugs and alcohol in prison
1
By doing drugs? They aren't hard to find in prison
-2
[removed]
Very interesting to read! But I feel like 0% of it covers the question asked..