Narcotics on hand at the state prison I work in are:
MS Contin
Morphine Sulfate (PO only)
Librium
Serax
Ativan
Klonopin
Phenobarb
T#3
Vicodin
Darvocet
Valium (PO & IM)
I think there's a few more, but that's all I can think of now. Interesting note, we don't have Narcan in the yard I work in, but you can always support ventilations until paramedics arrive. We also don't use Methadone. If an inmate returns to us from the streets and has been on Methadone (usually combined with Heroin, too
), the doctors will give them Clonidine or Robaxin or Serax and OTC drugs like Tylenol or Immodium just to control the withdrawal symptoms for about a week, but usually only if their VS are indicating distress (i.e. elevated BP and/or tachycardia). If they haven't yet started the withdrawal and don't have VS indicating distress, the doctors won't order anything, so the inmate's only options are to go mandown. Toradol and Ultram are not considered Narcotics at my facility, although Ultram is what we call a nurse administered medication and Toradol is only given usually as a one time dose IM.
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What kind of narcs do you keep on hand?
The strongest pain med we have is Motrin 800, and for heroin w/d we give (depending on the doc) motrin, flexaril, clonidine, tagamet, thorazine, immodium, and compazine, all p.o.
