Speaker 1: I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Glad and this is
Speaker 1: a war on drugs. Quick fix, Greg, what's going on
Speaker 1: with back? Man? We are back? Could hear your voice? Clayton?
Speaker 1: You too? Brother? Another quick fix? This one is with
Speaker 1: Maya Salavitz. Editor Nick was obsessed with this and he
Speaker 1: wanted it in the show. And you know, Michael booted it.
Speaker 1: He he's the reason we have in quick fixes because
Speaker 1: he cuts all this good information out and h I
Speaker 1: think he gets paid by the episode, and so the
Speaker 1: more quick fixes and something he takes out of the
Speaker 1: full one. Oh he tacking on, Yeah, you owned something.
Speaker 1: If it's one thing we learned here, it's followed the money. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we've learned that on this podcast. It was right our
Speaker 1: noses the whole time. So let's get into it. Man,
Speaker 1: this is something I didn't know. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: police were allowed to I let Maya tell you. So
Speaker 1: we have just created a medical system and a pharmacy
Speaker 1: system that is all about policing. I mean, law enforcement
Speaker 1: can look at your prescription drug records, oftentimes without a warrant.
Speaker 1: And this is particularly problematic for trans people because the
Speaker 1: testosterone is a controlled substance, so they can tell if
Speaker 1: you're trans they can tell if you're anxious. All of
Speaker 1: this without a warrant. How is that even legal? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like everybody's like hip hippa, hippa, Like, oh, I
Speaker 1: can't tell you my vaccine status because hippa, Well, hippa
Speaker 1: doesn't protect you against the one thing that most people
Speaker 1: really want to be protected against, which is police going
Speaker 1: into their medical records. But if you have a medical
Speaker 1: record of any controlled substance from you know, valium to
Speaker 1: OxyContin or testosterone, they can look. In many states, they
Speaker 1: can look without a warrant. And most states have interconnected
Speaker 1: their prescription monitoring programs with those of other states, so
Speaker 1: they can look across state lines too. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how that gets policed, I mean policing up the police,
Speaker 1: you know. And then there are these algorithms that are
Speaker 1: made by private companies that you know, troll this data
Speaker 1: to try to find out who's at high risk, and
Speaker 1: you know, it pops up a red flag when a
Speaker 1: doctor sees one of these patients and like, oh, look,
Speaker 1: you've been to twenty doctors. Well, actually I go to
Speaker 1: an academic practice and they're all part of a team.
Speaker 1: And that's why it looks like I'm doctor shopping, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't distinguish between that and actual doctor shopping. And again,
Speaker 1: if somebody is actual doctor shopping, right, they need help
Speaker 1: not to be hut off. I didn't know this was
Speaker 1: something that was being done or could be. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels like, you know, I'm even though I'm inturning, like
Speaker 1: I did not want to get in like healthcare law
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So I know, just like a
Speaker 1: little bit about hippo. But man, I really thought that
Speaker 1: your stuff was pretty much protected. Um. And again, the
Speaker 1: war on drugs, it's kind of like civil as sports
Speaker 1: or no knock Warren, Like, you think you're safe in
Speaker 1: your home, but this kind of allows that that door
Speaker 1: to open. And and you know, drugs are a gateway
Speaker 1: drug to your your home, your healthcare records, your privacy. Um.
Speaker 1: And I was blown away by what my you know,
Speaker 1: I had to say about that. So I'm sure you
Speaker 1: were too. I saw you. I saw your mouth just
Speaker 1: drop when she was talking. And me too. All this
Speaker 1: because of the War on drugs. Exactly. I'm Greg Glad
Speaker 1: and I'm Clayton, English and this has been a War
Speaker 1: on Drugs quick Fix Thanks for listening.