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Psychogenic Water Intoxication

Jail death from excess water drinking

The death of Ruben Nunez in San Diego’s Central Jail has raised questions about whether staff failed to properly monitor him. He suffered from a psychiatric condition that causes unrelenting thirst. Five days after he arrived, he was dead. Ref. Source 3r.

Intoxication Water Psychogenic

You can't really blame the police for not knowing about a psychiatric condition. I can't imagine the frustration to be thirsty all the time it must have been like hell in his mind.

Psychogenic Water Intoxication Health & Special Psychology

Very strange psychotic disorder. I can't say the police are blameless. When he was detained did he indicate anything or was his behavior irrational? At that point a professional should have been brought in to determine this.