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RAMOS v. PATNAUDE

No. 09-2179.

640 F.3d 485 (2011)

Jesus RAMOS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Thomas R. PATNAUDE, M.D. et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hector E. Pineiró , with whom Robert H. Beadel , Robert A. Scott , Law Office of Hector Pineiró, and Lizabel M. Negrón-Vargas , were on brief, for the appellant.

Matthew Grygorcewicz , with whom John J. Reardon , Melick Porter & Shea, L.L.P., Raymond J. Reed , Reed & Reed, Jeffrey Rosario Turco , and Law Offices of Jeffrey Rosario Turco, were on brief, for the appellees.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.

SOUTER, Associate Justice.

When the plaintiff-appellant, Jesus Ramos, was committed to the Worcester County House of Correction in Massachusetts as a pre-trial detainee on April 4, 2003, he was addicted to heroin, from which he was forced to abstain. In anticipation of his physical reaction he was given medication at the direction of the defendant-appellee, Dr. Thomas Patnaude, the institution's medical director, according to a protocol designed to mitigate the agony...

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