gesa’s avatargesa’s Twitter Archive—№ 42,719

    1. In order to have access to our medicine, we’re subjected to humiliating randomized drug tests (even in states that have legalized marijuana)
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    We’re required to sign “contracts” that commit us to unnecessary trips to our doctors, extra copays, and sometimes literal pill counts.
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      We have to go to the doctor office every month, or for some every *week*, to receive a paper prescription which we bring to the pharmacy.
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        The pharmacy can’t prep a controlled substance Rx ahead of time, so we have to take that paper to the pharmacy and wait or come back.
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          All we want is to live our lives. All we want is to manage our pain. but instead our lives revolve around getting our medicine.
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            It’s I am not here to say that people aren’t dying of opiate overdoses at alarming rates. But we need a better fucking solution than this.
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              It’s complicated, & I’m not trying to pretend it’s not. but people are literally killing themselves as an alternative to pain w/o treatment.
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              In closing for today, fuck capitalism. @gesa/894334319745011712
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                oh yeah and on the topic of fuck capitalism (but *especially* fuck capitalism in “healthcare”) @jenilg/894364765878931462