The family of an 18-year-old man who overdosed on Fentanyl twice within less than a week inside a Pima County jail has filed a lawsuit.
Sylvestre Inzunza didn’t survive one week in the Pima County Adult Detention Complex.
a drug the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention classifies as being 100 times stronger than morphineInzunza spent a day at the hospital where his condition stabilized before he was taken back to jail and stayed in the infirmary until Jan. 30, when medical staff deemed him stable enough to leave.
“After Sylvestre returned from the hospital, jail personnel largely failed to treat Sylvestre as the addicted individual that he was,” the lawsuit states. “Consequently, Sylvestre easily obtained Fentanyl a second time.” The lawsuit also claims NaphCare, a correctional health care provider based in Alabama, failed to staff a single licensed practical nurse at the facility between 3 p.m. on Feb. 1 and 6 a.m. on Feb. 6, breaching its contract which requires the company to always have at least one nurse at the male and female detoxification unit.Drug overdose rates in Arizona are peaking due to fentanyl and opioids
Mariah said close family members more often called Sylvestre by his nickname “Fatty,” which he earned for being an unusually chubby baby. Sylvestre embraced the name despite being quite athletic, and would get confused if family members called him by his given name.
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