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Second Circuit: Drug-Abuse Based Denial Of HCV Treatment Is Actionable

by John E. Dannenberg


The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals permitted a prisoners damages claim against the New York Department of Corrections (DOC) to proceed after he had been denied treatment for his Hepatitis-C (HCV) disease because he had tested positive for marijuana within the preceding two years.

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