• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Very happy to live in Canada/Ontario where I could just pick up a basket of pseudoephedrine if I really wanted to. land of the free

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      It’s such a shame the US can’t get tylenol 1. We have a fine system in place for Pseduophedrine. High limit, simple signature, watch and chase. Barely bothers anyone.

      Sometimes certain things need the help of a small amount of opiates, but is also a waste of everyone’s time to go to a doctor for.

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        10 days ago

        “I think it’s time for us to find out who’s really behind all of this…”

        pulls mask off opiod problem

        “I knew it! It was untreated mental health/public healthcare issue all along!”

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          10 days ago

          Maybe we could solve it by heavily criminalizing mental health crises and banning things like safe injection sites??

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            10 days ago

            Also, get someone with political power in the mental health professions to highly stigmatize drug users as party animals and lacking self-control so that they are further pushed away from legitimate help when they are treated as liars and manipulators by mental health clinicians. Include the idea that if anyone self-medicated due to a legitimate mental health condition after being pushed away from the health system by an overzealous provider that thought the person was merely seeking drugs, that provider was right all along!