They’re primarily checking for proof that you’re taking the medication.
If levels are too low: they assume you’re not using it, and if you’re not using it you must be selling it.
Levels too high: you’re abusing it.
Levels of something else (usually alcohol or cannabis): you’re a junkie.
All three can get your prescription revoked, and the testing requirements change based on the weather and what your doctor had for breakfast last Tuesday.
In certain states in the US they require a drug test to make sure you are infact taking the medication yourself. Its almost like a reverse drug test; you get in trouble if you’re not taking drugs.
So I guess also don’t forget and/or try to get off the medication otherwise you’ll fail the drug test and also loose access.
As a retired medic who has had to literally chased naked people down the street at 6am or simply be assaulted by them whenever, there are an amazing number of people that just go off their meds regularly. And the only way to know if they are following their treatment plan is to literally do a drug test. There are an amazing number of people who end up needing to be dealt with every day because they go off their meds.
And no, social workers don’t seem to want to get up off their asses and out into the community to do much about it. So ambulances and ERs and police get tied up trying to deal with the problems. And none of us have the proper tools or training to deal with them.
You ever try to get a social worker to chase a naked woman down a street at 6am? Or deal with a naked 6’7" 300lbs man off his meds and preaching hellfire and brimstone at 3am in the middle of a severe thunderstorm? I have, more than once or thrice.
It was just me and a deputy sheriff trying to catch the naked woman and then both of us pleading on our phones with our respective bosses for somewhere to take her - but there were no openings at the moment. And more importantly - I was informed by the “on call” social worker to “figure it out ourselves” to find a place for her. We ended up having to simply take her to jail to hold her until more people showed up to work to deal with it. (I did get a nasty email from her social worker though).
It was just me trying to talk that naked “preacher” into the back of my rig for a “little trip to a place he could preach.” And me hoping I wasn’t about to be assaulted for the 3rd time that month. I managed to talk the man into the 40 mile ride with me - unrestrained in the back of the ambulance. But I was on pins and needles the whole time.
Just like Jesus, no social worker was ever there to help me with ANY of those types of calls on scene. And just like little green apples and sunshine, I also knew that I would be seeing those two again in a couple of months.
The meds these people were supposed to be taking weren’t for ADHD, (as a medic I MIGHT know a bit more about these medications than you). You don’t chase people with ADHD naked down the street.
Those are the people who need a social worker the most. They are supposed to be checking in on these poor people far more often than they do to prevent them from needing me to chase them down or me getting assaulted by them in the first place.
But again, you ain’t never going to see a social worker working outside of a 9 to 5 office.
What’s up with the drug test part?
They’re primarily checking for proof that you’re taking the medication.
All three can get your prescription revoked, and the testing requirements change based on the weather and what your doctor had for breakfast last Tuesday.
In certain states in the US they require a drug test to make sure you are infact taking the medication yourself. Its almost like a reverse drug test; you get in trouble if you’re not taking drugs.
So I guess also don’t forget and/or try to get off the medication otherwise you’ll fail the drug test and also loose access.
The punishment for not taking the drug is that they don’t let you take the drug?
That makes as much sense as suspending a student for not attending classes.
You’re just making the problem worse.
As a retired medic who has had to literally chased naked people down the street at 6am or simply be assaulted by them whenever, there are an amazing number of people that just go off their meds regularly. And the only way to know if they are following their treatment plan is to literally do a drug test. There are an amazing number of people who end up needing to be dealt with every day because they go off their meds.
And no, social workers don’t seem to want to get up off their asses and out into the community to do much about it. So ambulances and ERs and police get tied up trying to deal with the problems. And none of us have the proper tools or training to deal with them.
lol it’s the fault of the social workers and not the government who won’t pay to hire social workers. Seriously?
You ever try to get a social worker to chase a naked woman down a street at 6am? Or deal with a naked 6’7" 300lbs man off his meds and preaching hellfire and brimstone at 3am in the middle of a severe thunderstorm? I have, more than once or thrice.
It was just me and a deputy sheriff trying to catch the naked woman and then both of us pleading on our phones with our respective bosses for somewhere to take her - but there were no openings at the moment. And more importantly - I was informed by the “on call” social worker to “figure it out ourselves” to find a place for her. We ended up having to simply take her to jail to hold her until more people showed up to work to deal with it. (I did get a nasty email from her social worker though).
It was just me trying to talk that naked “preacher” into the back of my rig for a “little trip to a place he could preach.” And me hoping I wasn’t about to be assaulted for the 3rd time that month. I managed to talk the man into the 40 mile ride with me - unrestrained in the back of the ambulance. But I was on pins and needles the whole time.
Just like Jesus, no social worker was ever there to help me with ANY of those types of calls on scene. And just like little green apples and sunshine, I also knew that I would be seeing those two again in a couple of months.
ADHD meds ≠ Anti-Psychotic meds.
Just so you know. Because it doesn’t seem like you know.😬
The meds these people were supposed to be taking weren’t for ADHD, (as a medic I MIGHT know a bit more about these medications than you). You don’t chase people with ADHD naked down the street.
Just so YOU know…
That’s what I’m saying. You’re making the comparison between people not taking their Anti-Psychotic meds and people not taking their ADHD meds…not me.
Those are the people who need a social worker the most. They are supposed to be checking in on these poor people far more often than they do to prevent them from needing me to chase them down or me getting assaulted by them in the first place.
But again, you ain’t never going to see a social worker working outside of a 9 to 5 office.