Comment on In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 months agoFolks without insurance or with “lesser” insurance tende to be poorer. More likely to be seeking pain meds to use recreationally.
Do you have a source for this? This sounds wrong, pain pills are rich/middle income people drug as I perceive it. You can’t really get hooked up on pills if you never got them by a doctor first.
GillyGumbo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are definitely pill mills in the poorer parts of town. And usually poor populations receive Medicaid, which will typically pay for the stuff. Just anecdotal evidence as a pharm tech in a rough part of town during college, but after a while we had to actually stop taking scripts for most pain meds (still got a ton of people using trazadone and stuff, though) because the pharmacist just didn’t think it was worth his license if the scripts were tied back to a pill mill.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The poor people often sell the pills as well.
Can’t afford a day off work lazing about on pain pills.