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| Four inmates overdose in two days at Ohio prison |
| By 13abc.com |
| Published: 04/25/2017 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Four inmates overdosed in two days at the same Ohio prison earlier this year, requiring the use of CPR and doses of an anti-overdose drug as guards scrambled to revive the men, according to state prison records. The "inmate was unresponsive, blue in the face and lips and did not have a pulse nor was he breathing," according to a report on an overdose late in the evening of Feb. 18 at Pickaway Correctional Institution. The next night, an inmate was found "laying on the floor of bathroom with eyes closed, covered in vomit," another report said. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request, don't name the drugs the inmates used, but say guards administered the anti-overdose drug naloxone to revive them. Naloxone is typically used to revive people overdosing on opioids like prescription painkillers and heroin. Ohio prison officials say multiple overdoses in such a short period at the same prison is unusual, but say the state's opiate epidemic is also inside prison walls, which is why they keep the anti-overdose drug stocked. Read More. |
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