April 19th, 2018
Remember my discussion about Adderall? How I thought it was pathetic that when I had a prescription, I couldn’t get one in this neighborhood?
Well, my wife had a Gall Stone issue recently and she was in terrible pain. She went to the emergency room and over the time she was there, the stone passed through where ever it had to pass, but she was still in pain. She was given a prescription for Oxycodone and sent home.
I went to all the pharmacy’s nearby to get her prescription filled and each and every place was ‘out of stock’.
So, I decided to pin Rite Aid down and ask them to order it and I’ll come back. They said to come back mid-week.
I just called today and they STILL didn’t have it.
Now, here’s the thing: my wife is a nurse. She had her hands on Oxycodone already but needed to fill the prescription to justify her recovery; which made sense.
But what if she wasn’t a nurse?
What if she DESPERATELY needed that medicine. Rite Aid and all the pharmacy’s I went too couldn’t possibly be out of a medicine the local emergency room doctor was prescribing. Impossible.
Meanwhile, if I were to take the hour trip into a more White, affluent neighborhood, I bet I can get it filled within 20 minutes of being there.
On one hand, that’s pretty fucked up for the White neighborhoods that are currently supposedly going through an ‘opioid crisis’. Addicted to whatever they can get their hands on and the pharmacies are straight giving it to them.
In Black neighborhoods, first my Adderall and now my wife’s Oxycodone, it seems quite suspicious that these places can’t fill an order …. then wait a week, and they STILL can’t fill an order for a legit prescription? So how are people to truly get pain relief?
If I was ‘that guy’, I’d sell the drugs and get it to people who need or don’t need it, make a profit and fuck the system because clearly, the system is fucking legitimate needs.
One thing I have to say about gaining an increased education: your awareness of how much you’re getting fucked silently gradually becomes revealed.
I’m telling you: I cannot hate the underground of services and criminal activity. I see and understand why they exist. Makes me hate law enforcement even more.
The question is, even if I get this bachelor’s degree, will it matter when the only way to achieve anything of note will be to lie, cheat and steal?
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