She died in a jail cell. Did corrections staff ignore advice of EMS to treat her?

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She died in a jail cell. Did corrections staff ignore advice of EMS to treat her?

A family wants accountability and action after a woman died inside a local jail. They told News 4 she begged for help, but corrections officials ignored the advice of paramedics who said she needed to be in a hospital, not a cell.

Forty-five-year-old Kate Pinson was a daughter and a mother.

“She was there for every big event she had. Did these awesome costumes for us every Halloween, handmade costumes,” said her daughter Kayla Hoeer. “A really good. Mom.”

But Kate was also bipolar and struggled with substance abuse.

“She had her first surgery about 23 years of age, and she was put on opiates for the pain,” said her mother Sally Becker.

Later, her family said, she turned to fentanyl. In August last year, she was arrested for warrants on outstanding traffic tickets. She was taken to St. Louis County first, then the St. Ann jail.

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1. I really hate this...

I even went in to read the "whole" story. There was no mention as to WHY she "turned to fentanyl." Given the chaos I go through every month to get my meds, I can guess why. Some pain management individual probably x'd out her script of meds, and left her hanging. Then she turned to the streets to try to find medication. Not drugs, in her mind, but medication.

They didn't go into why the brain surgery... what it was for... or her what her life was like afterwards, regarding pain. That's left to our imaginations. Why would brain surgery 23 years prior still be causing pain today? I'm not saying it didn't... but I would have like to know from the story. Even a one-liner that says "this type of surgery usually causes... "X".

Instead, they used the now radical, demeaning word of "fentanyl" as if to explain everything. Those of us on chronic pain meds will read the story one way; everyone against drugs, or this one in particular, will see it another way.

IOW, this "journalist" did one more step to aid in the divisiveness of Americans, rather than attempting to give them real knowledge which could perhaps lead to real steps forward. The journalist also managed, in doing this, to completely marginalize and compartmentalize Kate Pinson, as if she was someone who didn't matter - just another addict seeking drugs - and therefore, not worth our time and effort.