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Addiction & Recovery

LifeLongDemocratic

(131 posts) Fri Jul 16, 2021, 04:38 PM Jul 2021

Put drug addicts in hallway [View all]

I was in the emergency room last week for chest pain and noticed the patients not in rooms but in the hallways on stretchers looked like they were strung out on drugs. I noticed that at another hospital emergency room I went to after having a car accident a few years ago. Is that something that hospitals do is put the drug addicts in the hallway in the emergency room instead of private rooms or am imagining things and sick people look like strung out drug addicts?

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Put drug addicts in hallway [View all] LifeLongDemocratic Jul 2021 OP

Could it be that in an emergency room situation drug addicts could be more easily No Vested Interest Jul 2021 #1

Perhaps LifeLongDemocratic Jul 2021 #2

I think most hospitals now have a special unit for detox, depending on the size of the hospital Rhiannon12866 Jul 2021 #3