Scenario: Me quizzing a patient complaining of chest pain
Me: Do you smoke?
Him: No, I’m a vegetarian.
Me: So you don’t smoke animals then?
:dubious:
Qadgop - Prisoners still get cigarettes? I’d think that government facilities would’ve stopped that years ago.
StG
Maybe he thought you meant brisket.
Prisoners say the darnedest things.
I was at a hearing Monday. The defense? “I confessed. So I don’t understand how you can find me guilty.”
What did he want me to do? Call him a liar?
It’s restricted but not entirely banned. In New York, prisoners can own cigarettes and smoke outdoors.
In Wisconsin, no prisons allow any tobacco products on the grounds, for either inmates or staff.
But we’re an intake facility, so I’m constantly seeing guys who may have been smoking up to a day or two before I might see them. So it’s still a pertinent question.
Bwa ha ha ha!
First you bargin, then you plea!
Maybe he smoked the healthy cigarettes, those from free-range tobacco.
Is the prison system set up to allow him to maintain his vegetarianism?
This might be a question for new thread, but what kind of reactions do you normally see from new prisoners who are informed that they have just quit smoking cold-turkey?
I’ve overseen the initial intake of over 7200 inmates a year for six years now, and I have had exactly one encounter with one patient who was significantly cranked out over not getting tobacco.
Getting funnelled into the maximum security system is overwhelming enough for most folks that their nicotine withdrawal cravings tend to take a back seat to other adjustment reactions.
I guess having a post coital cigarette is right out the window.
snork**snicker, snicker
Oh the coke…it burns…
I don’t guess you’re supposed to coital in prison anyway.
Are they bought in the commisary like other products or do they get sent in from relatives or what not.
Declan
All of the above. They can buy them in the commissary, receive them in a package, or buy them from mail-order catalogs (which is the “what not”).
That’s not allowed in prisons either as I understand it. Unless you’re Richard Speck.
Not real well. He can decline to eat the non-vegetarian items, or swap them out for veggies with other inmates. He can try to convince the chaplain that it’s a religious issue (but that’s not often successful). But mostly there’s no vegetarian option.
And since it’s not a medical issue, I don’t get involved in it.
The standard food fare gives our inmates 3300 calories a day, more than enough to sustain a large man. And there’s a lot of soy substituting for meat as it is.
Speaking of ‘cranked out’ - how much withdrawal from harder stuff do you have to help them cope with?
Or is the hope that they’ve already had some detox time in county jail before they land at Reception / Intake, so the other facilities have dealt with the worst of it?