Legal Opinion
Ramos v. Patnaude
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 23, 2011No. 09-2179PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
When the plaintiff-appellant, Jesus Ramos, was committed to the Worcester County House of Correction in Massachusetts as a pre-trial detainee on April 4, 2003, he was addicted to heroin, from which he was forced to abstain. In anticipation of his physical reaction he was given medication at the direction of the defendant-appellee, Dr. Thomas Patnaude, the institution’s medical director, according to a protocol designed to mitigate the agony of withdrawal and prescribed by the doctor in thousands of previous cases. The treatment spanned a three-day period and was…
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