Brian Mann
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On a cold December night in 2023, Shonda's camp was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at Providence Hospital in Milwaukee, Oregon, south of Portland.
The scamp was 26 years old, homeless, emaciated, and experiencing what doctors believed was chronic street drug addiction, a leading cause of death for young Americans.
The hospital's medical team cleaned him up and gave him Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses.
But as he lay slumped and unresponsive, doctors and nurses called police and told them to remove Descamp, suggesting they drop him at a bus station.
One of the hospital's medical team can be heard there on a body camera recording released by Milwaukee police.
NPR hasn't been able to identify the speaker.
He tells officers Descamp is faking the severity of his illness.
Police used a wheelchair to roll this camp's limp body into the dark hospital parking lot.
And the cold officers draped him with a blanket, voicing concern about his safety.
A spokesman for Providence Milwaukee Hospital declined NPR's request for an interview about Discamp's case and didn't respond to detailed questions about his treatment.
A statement issued to the media by the hospital after Discamp's death said, quote,
After interviews with more than a dozen doctors, researchers, and government officials, and a review of research and federal data, NPR found what happened that night in Oregon is part of a troubling national pattern.
People with serious alcohol and drug addiction in the U.S.
regularly go to doctors' offices, clinics, and hospitals, but are turned away after receiving insufficient or no treatment.
Dr. Judy Chertok treats patients and teaches addiction medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chertok and others have been working for years to bring addiction treatment into the medical mainstream.
While overdose deaths have dropped in recent years, alcohol and drug-related illnesses still kill a quarter million people in the U.S.
every year.
New federal data shows fewer than one in five people who need help get any medical treatment for their addiction.
In the case of Jean Descamp on that winter night in Oregon, death came much faster.
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