# Can inmates receive prescribed narcotics in jail? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 10, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-inmates-receive-prescribed-narcotics-in-jail/375896 "2006-10-10T04:16:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-inmates-receive-prescribed-narcotics-in-jail/375896/61 "2017-09-25T01:40:38Z")
And if anyone has a right to an ego-trip, it’s **Qadgop**. He’s earned it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-inmates-receive-prescribed-narcotics-in-jail/375896/62 "2017-09-25T03:05:33Z")
Wow, that escalated quick-like! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-inmates-receive-prescribed-narcotics-in-jail/375896/63 "2017-09-25T12:12:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > And if anyone has a right to an ego-trip, it’s **Qadgop**. He’s earned it. If there’s anything around here more important than my ego, I want it taken out and shot! 🙂 Seriously, my recommendations for the use of opioids do agree with the standards now being distributed by the nation’s leading experts. And by _my_, I mean those recommendations I learned from others long ago, and that I teach to others. I did NOT invent them myself. My patients may choose between the options available to them, as described and presented by me. They may request anything they want, and I will hear their requests. And many patients have good insight and ideas into what will work for them. But patients don’t get to dictate what they want and expect me to provide it for them just because they want it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-inmates-receive-prescribed-narcotics-in-jail/375896/64 "2017-09-25T16:38:42Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wow, that escalated quick-like! 11 years seems like a pretty _slow_ escalation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-inmates-receive-prescribed-narcotics-in-jail/375896/65 "2017-09-25T23:57:14Z")
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