Hooked on heroin, she sat 2 days in an ER. Hospitals say you pay for this stay, too.

[TexasTowelie]

A 25-year-old Gaston County woman who is addicted to heroin waited two days in a hospital’s emergency department, in a psychiatric observation room with no bed.

She needed help for her drug addiction, her family says, but local treatment centers were full.

“They don’t have any place to put them. They’re so packed,” says the woman’s grandmother.

Instead, the woman was taken to an emergency room by police last month, under a judge’s order to involuntarily commit her. The woman’s family says she had threatened to kill herself and they’ve been concerned about her health and behavior after learning she’s been using heroin for several years.

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