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[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Oh jeez, he's talking camps...

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

He's wanting to set up camps to help people's concentration. I wonder what they'll call it?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Translation: Prison farms people are forced to go to because someone says they have a problem. This will also help with all the migrant crackdowns because who is going to grow and harvest our food.

Seriously though, after deinstitutionalization we were supposed to build a bunch of community health centers to help people. That never happened, but it should have. This is some perversion of that stolen idea designed to enrich the wealthy.

[–] Tofu_Ninja@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I wondered how they planned on keeping the farms going without immigrants. Anyone who has a problem can be put in “wellness farms”. Awesome.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, because it's soooo hard to get drugs in rural areas 🙄

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think that's the point. They need a new labor force in these rural areas because they just deported the last one.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I hope to god everyone on antidepressants isn’t about to go through what people with ADHD have been going through for medication access. Ridiculous hoops to jump through, short term prescriptions, doctors treating you like a criminal, and medication shortages have made life miserable for so many people.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And anti-psychotic medication too.

Does he want a bunch of undiagnosed schizophrenic people coming after him and his fellow maga stooges? Because this is how he gets a bunch of undiagnosed schizophrenic people coming after him.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Untreated, not undiagnosed.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If he tries to ban meds, big pharma will absolutely fucking pulverise him.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too much money involved for that.

Pharma has an open left leaning culture but once you get to executive leadership and the board the only thing that matters is sales. The bribers (aka lobbyists) will work with anyone.

You can bet your ass there is more chance of the FDA getting disbanded than drugs having prices regulated or simply being banned from sale. I'm expecting the biden price negotiations for medicare and medicaid to go away so the pharmas can milk us even more with their exclusive monopolies for the first decade or so of sales.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

From what I can tell, the most widely used antidepressants are long off patent and pretty cheap as generics. That's why insurance companies want doctors to prescribe them instead of sending you to expensive therapy. Overprescribing antidepressants in that sense is more like overprescribing aspirin. Medically unnecessary, maybe even potentially harmful? Maybe. But, the stuff is too cheap for Big Pharma to be doing it purely for the money. That's what opiods were for ;).

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