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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond

“It was easier to obtain opioids from your neighbors than a cup of sugar.”
Author describing a trailer park in Milwaukee. 😢😢😢
This book is heartbreaking and eye-opening.
What a vicious cycle of injustices.

Cathythoughts Great quote 👍🏻 14h

Cinfhen How sad and frightening is that @Cathythoughts ??!?!! 14h

TrishB Horrible ☹️ 14h

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Lizpixie @Cinfhen unfortunately a lot of these authors(and lawmakers, doctors etc) don‘t take into account those of us who need those opioid type medications just to live a part normal life! There‘s a lot of people like me who have painful chronic illnesses who are now being told we can‘t have the scripts to deal with our disabling pain”why don‘t you try yoga?” “ what about meditation?” If that worked I‘d have been drug free 18yrs ago. 13h

Lizpixie I just had a conversation with my eldest daughter who unfortunately inherited endometriosis from me and is in excruciating pain a lot of the month, our gp just got a government letter restricting her to one box of endone a month. She has women in her endo support group who‘ve been dropped by numerous doctors afraid of getting their pbs license cancelled. There‘s been two sufferers so far who have committed suicide rather than live with the pain. 13h

Lizpixie It‘s mainly hysteria over fentanyl patches & oxycodone dealing which honestly, is not a huge problem over here but we, The sufferers, are paying the price. And here in Australia we don‘t even have the option of cannabis or cbd for relief. Sorry for the rant, it‘s something that‘s scaring the crap out of me!🤷🏻‍♀️ 13h

Cinfhen I‘m sorry for your daughter and for you @Lizpixie I understand your frustration. Unfortunately so many people abuse the system that those in true need suffer endlessly. Why don‘t you have access to CBD?? And I‘m surprised medical marijuana is still illegal in Australia. 12h

Cinfhen This book is actually referring specifically to the junkies and dealers who are abusing a system and perpetuating a cycle of drugs and poverty. Mom‘s selling food stamps for pills and nursing home workers stealing meds from their patients to sell to their neighbors. It‘s terrible @Lizpixie 12h

JenReadsAlot I live about an hour outside of Milwaukee and was heartbroken when I realized this book was set there. 11h

Lizpixie @Cinfhen yeah, there‘s a lot of us who are surprised medicinal cannabis is not readily available in Australia. The government keeps making announcements about”making it possible for sick Australians to have access to cannabis” but it‘s all smoke and mirrors. We have no dispensaries, there‘s a very short list of illnesses that qualify(mainly terminal patients & chronic seizure sufferers)and then you can only buy it from a government run program👇👇 11h

Lizpixie That charges a fortune for inferior flower and tinctures. I know this for a fact because my grandson has a brain condition which causes seizures and some of the kids who see the same specialists have gone through the hoops to access it. It cost them $240 for a small amount of flower, some oil capsules and a thc/cbd tincture. Which they said was very poor quality. 11h

sarahbarnes I heard Matthew Desmond speak at a conference this summer. Such a great book and such a complex, but critical, issue to solve. 8h

Cinfhen @Lizpixie 😥😥😥 4h

Cinfhen I‘m sure Desmond was wonderful. I‘m so awed by how he conducted his research ~ LIVING with the families he features in the book @sarahbarnes 4h

Leftcoastzen It‘s an amazing book ,heartbreaks on every page 2h

Cinfhen Desmond really humanizes the epidemic @Leftcoastzen 2h

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