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Crazy. Sub clinics are sad places. Gray-faced junkies paying $3-400/month to stay hooked. A buprenorphine script is probably $10/month. It's a racket. Capitalis
by coleifer 8y ago
Crazy. Sub clinics are sad places. Gray-faced junkies paying $3-400/month to stay hooked. A buprenorphine script is probably $10/month. It's a racket. Capitalism at work.
- natalyarostova 8y agoThis seems much more related to the specific political economy of government health institutions and their interaction with electoral systems, than a specific causal attribution to systems based on capital. That is to say, there are many failure and success modes of a government response to drugs that are orthogonal, or at least only loosely correlated, with the specific marker system that is implemented.
- tmp-20150107 8y agoWow! This makes slightly less angry about the hoops I had to jump through to get on a treatment program with the NHS in the UK. (Well, the part of it where prescriptions are still free.) At least they don't add to the problem by making you pay to get help...