Scoring Illegal Drugs with a Prescription
How our Broken System Forces People to Break the Law
5 min readNov 24, 2019
I have a friend, let’s call him Bob. He lost his job a couple of years ago. That meant he lost his health insurance. He needs a prescription medication, Lamictal, for a seizure disorder. If he doesn’t take his pill every day, it’s not safe for him to drive. This makes life difficult for him in Texas, where…