NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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๐Ÿฅ I am not embroiled in any legal battle
๐Ÿฆ other than battles that are legal ๐ŸŽฎ

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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NireBryce
@NireBryce

otherwise, they don't get to prescribe them. It should be this simple. withdrawl (Oh, I'm sorry, Cessation Syndrome) is downplayed a whole lot in the lit.

if they don't have that experience, they really cannot be managing the course of treatment accurately.

I'd even settle for "they taper off it but it's something with a high initial dose like 50mg" so they feel that yes, it's still a problem even then.

But I know so many people on high doses, who's doctors then go on vacation or whatever and dont give them the heads up. Who just lose weeks.


gwenverbsnouns
@gwenverbsnouns

tangentially related, it's incredibly fucked up that prescriptions with debilitating withdrawal symptoms are at the mercy of doctor availability, insurance approval, and supply shortages due to the FDA and the greed of pharmaceutical execs

the amount of unnecessary stress ive had to deal with from insurance companies refusing to let me fill more than 30 days of my meds, and only when they estimate im about to run out of my last refill. it makes planning for travel suuper fun when it costs $600+ to fill some of them out of pocket, and when pharmacies have limited numbers of allowed transfers for certain meds, and fuck me if i ever want to spend more than a week or two out of the country i guess.


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

I would hope that such a practice would have the desired effect, but if I'm being honest I have a hard time seeing it.

I struggle to think of a situation where having been subjected to a form of potential pain or cruelty reliably stopped or discouraged people from inflicting that pain or cruelty on others when given the power or authority to do so.

Having to be pepper sprayed in training doesn't seem to discourage police from using pepper spray unnecessarily, and having experienced severe COVID-19 symptoms at some point doesn't seem to get people to wear masks.