Can an RN travel on an airplane with detox patient?

[heather8228]

I am a fairly new RN who was just offered a side job. I would be traveling on airplanes with patients who are traveling from one private drug rehab/detox to another. The patient would be traveling with a counselor. The patient is not allowed to hold the medication themselves (as part of the treatment), and the counselor is not licensed to administer medication. They want an RN to travel with the patient and the counselor to monitor the patient's need for detox medication, and administer appropriately throughout the flight. Is this legal? Anyone have information that would be helpful to me being able to do this safely and legally?

[drmorton2b]

I am fairly certain that the RNs you see on intervention are giving enough "comfort meds" so they can fly them to the detox only (Compazine, etc. etc.) I doubt they are giving Methadone. Also if that patient is in alcohol withdrawal I doubt they would be flying them to a detox center. That CIWA patient would be in the ER or at the local inpatient detox center.