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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

My friend has ADHD talking about her ADHD meds that’s a schedule 2 drug in America.

Let me remind you ADHD effects your working memory. So essentially if you gotta remember to call your doctor tomorrow, you will not remember to call your doctor tomorrow.

And let me tell you how hard it is.

1. First of all, you can’t get it on auto refill.
2. Second, you can’t get it refilled weeks before you run our. You only have a small time frame between when you can get it refilled and when you run out.
3. If the pharmacy doesn’t have it, they can’t substitute for generic.
4. If the pharmacy doesn’t have it, they can’t just move the prescription to another pharmacy. The doctor has to prescribe it AGAIN at the new pharmacy.
5. It has to stay in the bottle.

You have a whole group of disabled people with issues with their working memory, and you make it as hard as humanely possible for them to refill it? To the point where they can do everything right and still not have their meds filled on time? Even though suddenly stopping this medication has serious side effects?

And for what? This made up war on drugs?

I get SO MAD.

Because you have all these drug laws to criminalize Black and Hispanic people, but all its really doing is making it impossible for disabled people to get the meds they need.

Let me remind you. This is medication for people that have issues with their memory. You’re forcing them to rely on their memory, which doesn’t with correctly, to get it refilled on time.

And even if they do everything right, they still may not get it in time.

(My memory is shit from my migraines, and I’ll order my meds a month in advance because if I don’t remember to order it when I think about it, I’ll entirely forget.)

-fae

Oh! Oh! I forgot! To make matters worse.

Another symptom of ADHD is time blindness.

Which I do experience time blindness. It’s the inability to tell the passage of time. It’s why they often forget to eat and drink water.

Let me tell you what that’s like on a long term basis.

I dislocated my shoulder a few years back. It popped right back in before I realized it had happened, but it didn’t pop back in right, so it HURT. You know, pain after a bad fall is normal so you give it a few days. Well it still hurt so I went to the doctor. He said it didn’t pop back in right, adjusted it.

He asked how long ago the fall was…

I told him 5 days.

I then texted my friend to confirm while I was still at the office, because I’m not good with time.

It had been 5 weeks.

I still have nerve damage from that.

My doctor was very mad it took 5 weeks to realize my shoulder had been hurting too long, but in my defense I REALLY did believe it had only been 5 days.

You’re telling me that a group of disabled people that can’t tell the difference between 5 days and 5 weeks are expected to call their meds in on time? Really?

All because of this imaginary war on drugs to criminalize Black and Hispanic people.

-fae

i’ve needed an adderall refill for nearly 2 weeks. i get my scrip from my university, which won’t call in adderall refills to the pharmacy, you have to go in and get a paper scrip, take it to the pharmacy, then go back to pick it up.

Shockingly, I did remember to email the clinic for a refill, but I forgot to go pick it up before Thanksgiving break. Who knows if i will remember Monday. Never mind that not having it will affect my ability to do… school.

But this is clearly a fine and not harmful way of doing things.