Disability-Related Difficulty Refilling Medications
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People who have disabilities, like autism and ADHD, are extravagantly marginalized by the psychiatric system. The process of getting prescribed medication provides unique difficulties to disabled people, including supply chain failure, phone tag, frequent rejection, vilification and distrust of patients, and emphatic refusal to accommodate support needs. For people who depend on medication to function, regulations on those medications make it difficult, if not impossible, to reliably acquire it. Pharmacies who run out of medication choose to let patients flounder and suffer instead of communicating supply chain failure. This means patients are left in the dark about when or if their medication will be available. Prescriptions for this life-changing medication are only valid for a few days, meaning that every month, patients whose disabilities make phone calls psychologically taxing have to repeatedly navigate multiple series of multiple phone calls made in precise sequence to different parties. Psychiatrists don't help patients with disabilities navigate this alienating struggle, operating under the ableist assumption that patients are able to personally stay on top of the pharmecutical system's shortcomings in a way that would strain even neurotypicals' fortitude.
Version 1 of 1 - This issue was first identified by lavra on 1/7/2025
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