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Joshua Powell's avatar

So wrong. I’ve studied safe medications for the elderly and going after Medicare patients is insane. SSRIs are often the safest medications available.

Justin's avatar

To paraphrase, I want to say the sometimes inconsistent Christopher Titus: They say, "it's just a crutch." Of course it's just a crutch. You don't walk up to a person with a broken leg and say, "Those sticks under your arms are just a crutch. Walk it off!"

OrdinaryJoe's avatar

New Age Taxidermist and part time shyster lawyer/failed politician Robert Fucking Kennedy? Sounds like the necessary resume for Hair Furor's HHS Secretary? I happen to think he comes off as an elitist "thinning the herd is good" believer who thinks evolution and genetics rather than medicine should decide who survives.

mzf's avatar

Would be nice if I knew what SSRI stood for. Can anyone here help with that?

lina corvus's avatar

I live in NJ and just this year they rolled back the telehealth exemptions for scheduled medications—i.e. my ADHD meds—and now I have to see a doctor quarterly, at some expense, to maintain a prescription that I have been on for two decades now. And that's with the doctor doing me a favor, the nasty release I was forced to sign for the nonprofit health network wanted me to be seeing the doctor monthly and threatens me with urine tests. I mention this because in both cases, the issue here is that the majority of SSRI users are not "victims of overprescribing", just as the majority of people on stimulants are not abusing or selling their pills. Yet we have to be put through these regimes of suspicion just because the people making these shit policies are overly concerned with flashy edge cases that trigger disgust and contempt in the powerful and the uninformed.

The time for radical drug legalization is now. Stop giving MAGA, MAHA, and centrist cowards any say over medical decisions that the targets of their hate are making.

LOU LOU's avatar

There is always some unhealthy , secret strategy being rolled out when Trump and his ilk suddenly begin picking on a new bone.

NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

Fucking Assholes: “It’s not the guns, it’s a mental health issue!”

Also Fucking Assholes: “Eliminate mental health screening in schools! Restrict access to medications!”

Lizzy Claiborne's avatar

You know how the heroin addict gulps methylene blue? It’s an SSRI. He’s an asshole.

You’ll need to dig deep into pharmacology to find that, but anybody on an MAOI (good for ADHD driven depression 😉) should have heard about it. The two drugs do not mix.

I Stedman's avatar

Nobody has a problem with you being on crutches because you have a broken leg.

Why do they have such a problem with a broken brain?

I do not know.

pstokk's avatar

Do they have anything to treat the willingness to get evacuated from a shooting incident by SS but leave your wife scrambling after you unprotected? Because I think he needs some of that. He's getting plenty of exercise, doesn't seem to help here. To be fair, a diet of roadkill and raw milk might not be salutary for any condition.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I guess I'll have to run down to the local GOP headquarters and ask them why I should take medical advice from a junkie without a medical degree.

Eden's avatar

How can we stop all this. He is not a Doctor.

Sherry's avatar

I just want to point out that the Drug Companies are very powerful and if Kennedy thinks he can win this fight, he’s got another think coming.