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Failure to Administer Medication as Prescribed not Actionable

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a guard's failure to
administer medication exactly as prescribed, without additional
exacerbating hardships, does not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth
Amendments.

This 42 U.S.C §1983 action was brought by a pretrial detainee at the
Kendall County, Illinois, jail. The detainee developed a ...

 

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