• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    There are perfectly good reasons to be concerned about people medicating themselves with off label medication, or medication that have been sourced independently of trained healthcare providers.

    However, just like when any demographic begins self medicating it is due to a failure in the public health sector. As a pediatric healthcare provider it’s infuriating to see politicians once again attempt to make healthcare their business.

    They have no idea how providers assess their patients health, so something like total outcome assessments don’t mean anything to them. When providers are prescribing hormone therapy to their patients , they are weighting some minimal potential side effects against very permanent things like suicide.

    The big concern when politicians ban certain types of healthcare , is there’s always a shady character willing to take advantage of the people seeking that care illicitly. Of course there will be people providing these medications who truly want to help people, but they are usually eventually going to be a minority.