‘I’ll bet it feels like you’re going to die, doesn’t it?’ Salt Lake County jailers thought inmate was withdrawing from heroin before her 2016 death, family says.

Jailers thought Lisa Marie Ostler was suffering from the painful withdrawals that come when a body reacts to a lack of opiates. In a few days, they thought, she’d be fine.

Ostler’s insides were failing her. She couldn’t eat or drink in the days after her March 2016 arrest. In addition to her drug addiction, Ostler suffered from Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease that can cause extreme pain and digestive issues.

Over the course of five days, Ostler suffered a painful decline while Salt Lake County jailers ignored or overlooked her pleas for help and medical attention before she died, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court.