This has been such an absolute ongoing nightmare for people with ADHD.
New CDC study: In 2023, among the ~5 million US adults with ADHD who take stimulant medication (a first line treatment), about 7 in 10 patients had difficulty filling their prescription because the medication was unavailable. 🛟 #episky #medsky #healthpolicy
This report describes adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, treatment, and use of telehealth for ADHD services.
This is (one of) the reasons why Canada revoked the Jewish National Fund's tax exempt status. The U.S. should do so next.
The Israeli government, the Jewish Agency, and the JNF are funding and facilitating settler violence and brutal dispossession of Palestinians in dozens of settlers' "farms" all over the West Bank. Excellent reporting from Hagar Shezaf and Hilo Glazer. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Good doctors who listen are worth their weight in gold! I've been tagging along to as many of my wife's appointments as I can to be a human shield against dismissal/steamrollering, but it's infuriating how often it proves necessary.
We're currently in the process of trying to get a POTS diagnosis for my wife. Months of seeing every specialist under the sun to "rule things out" and she still can't get a referral to the one place in town that specializes in POTS. Thank God my job has great health insurance and an FSA.
< taps sign > There's no "Taliban" about it. Y'all gotta cut it out with this xenophobic/Islamophobic stuff. The folks behind this fuckery in Florida are Christians, and they are from right here in the USA.< taps sign > There's no "Taliban" about it. Y'all gotta cut it out with this xenophobic/Islamophobic stuff. The folks behind this fuckery in Florida are Christians, and they are from right here in the USA.
I warn everybody who talks to me about wanting to go to cons to avoid any con he touches--which sucks, because he runs so many of the ones that are easily accessible from where I live. Fuck that predatory piece of shit. (And hello, fellow paralegal!)
Mary Burchell remains one of the most successful romance writers, ever. Over 110 Mills and Boon books to her name. Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose: Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister. Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵
For full transparency, the organization in question is AnimeCon(dot)Org, which runs a number of cons each year in the Midwest.