Posted on 11/12/2023 2:17:55 PM PST by thecodont
Pharmacies were once abundant in the South Side of Chicago. Now, residents living in the majority Black neighborhood often find themselves with few options when it’s time to get a prescription refilled or stock up on cold medicine.
Ladell Johnson, a longtime resident of the South Side, drives half an hour from her house to the downtown area every time she needs to pick up her prescription. “Luckily, this pharmacy is close to where I work, but my house is half an hour away by car or one hour by bus,” she said. “If I didn’t have a car, I would have to walk 20 blocks one way to my closest pharmacy.”
As pharmacies shutter stores across the U.S., people in low-income and predominantly Black, Latino, and Indigenous neighborhoods are increasingly left in pharmacy deserts, without easy access to medications and other essentials. In November 2021, CVS announced that it would be closing 300 stores a year across the country in the next three years, and Rite Aid, which filed for bankruptcy in October, plans to close at least 150 stores in the next several months.
“Pharmacy deserts have been a longstanding issue that has gotten worse with recent closures of both independent and chain pharmacies,” said Dima Qato, an associate professor at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, who studies disparities in geographic access to pharmacies and spent more than a decade working as a community pharmacist in Chicago. That lack of access can have major consequences for the health of people living in marginalized communities.
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food and drug desserts.....well certain kind of drug desserts anyway
Obviously the argument for fascism, by putting pharmacies under the control of government.
sorry deserts.....I just had a dessert a while ago
Damn pharmacy deserts! Who invited them anyway?
Hey, they can pass a law. “This area not zoned for pharmacy desert.” Where’s my check?
They made their beds, now they can die in them.
All because of Shoplifting Utopias
Here’s an idea... don’t shoplift pharmacies into bankruptcy and you won’t have “pharmacy deserts.”
I wonder if some of these deserts are somehow in the same cities, and counties that elect Soros backed DAs that will willingly turn a blind eye to shoplifting?
Perhaps if the black people still want pharmacies in their areas they could quit stealing and looting the stores.
First I’ve heard it’s happening “all across the US”. Looks to me it’s a “big city liberal stronghold” thing.
ZERO sympathy.
I work at a Chicagoland regional pharmacy chain. We have a delivery service for $8 - all we ask is that you are home, because they can’t be left in a mailbox. We also ship via USPS at no charge.
People don’t know their options, which is tragic given the fact of terrible local crime and how it has forced pharmacies to close.
I’m sure the next Democrat mayor wannabe will start making promises on fixing those problems.
Well, as long as they keep voting solid Democrat they should expect the problem to just get worse. “No more cops, no more retail stores”. Just shoplift your neighborhoods into deserts, folks. Unca Sugar will take care of y’all.
The ignorance here is frightening. And people buy into the projection that the Dems keep using...***sigh*** SSZ
All Democrats, the residents, their elected leaders, their culture and their entire political universe, their teachers and school administrators, their daycare operators, and even their churches.
This is a part of the Democrat Party.
While it’s easy to feel sorry for the black grandmother who went to church on a regular basis and is more God-fearing than most young whites, and now needs drugs in her older age...just remember how she likely voted.
I used to live in the South Side. The Walgreens was central to a LOT of my buying. Heck, I bought my first TV at Walgreens, a 13” Gold Star tube with analog channel knobs.
So, I checked to see if that Walgreen’s was still there. Yup. It also expanded into the Woolworth’s spot, an old massive newsstand, and possible the Hyde Park Coop supermarket.
No pharmacy desert there.
Amazon will fill most if not all legal rxes and mail them to your home or ????
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