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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A population of adults that has to a large extent failed to instill civility and a high regard for the law into its young ought to pay a high price for its stupidity.
Maybe tell your kids and neighbors to stop stealing.
Just another example of corporate greed.
A long way to drive to the next pharmacy.
Mad Magazine “next exit” signs.
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I personally believe it contributes to saving their lives. We’re being big pharma’d to death. Sorcery. Pharmekia. Wickedness.
they appear to be the lucky ones.
phonetically counterintuitive
“HARM-a-ceuticals” for sure.
You make your bed you sleep in it!
Nah! I seriously doubt that! (/sarcasm)
People don’t know their options, which is tragic given the fact of terrible local crime and how it has forced pharmacies to close.
Your post reminds me of a Walgreens I saw in a large California city (not SF Bay area) but it wasn't the conventional standalone type that had the equivalent of a small grocery store in the front and the pharmacy counter in the back. This one was connected to a medical center and had only a small waiting room with the drugs etc. behind a counter and glass window. You had to come to the front counter for help. It reminded me of the first "drugstore" I saw as a child, also connected to a medical center.
The standalone drug stores were another issue. Some (when I was small) still had a soda fountain/lunch counter on the side, sundries and cosmetics in the front, pharmacy counter in the back.
The latter form of pharmacy typically lost its soda fountain and added a small grocery store. These are the stores we have seen getting shoplifted into the grave these days.
The article mentions mobile pharmacies as a possible solution but I don't know how well they'd fare in some bad neighborhoods.
Pharmacies are not pulling out for no reason.
If inner city folks don’t want food/pharmacy, whatever deserts then quit creating them with your lawless behavior.
Protect the stores and pay for the goods instead of stealing them, and businesses will stay.
yes! with an entirely NEW division that now creates drugs to offset the side effects of the original drugs. Brilliant!
This is what passes for reporting these days, zero interest in discovering or discussing WHY.
You can't find solutions until you understand the root of the problem. The truth is everybody knows the root of the problem but the powers that be can use this for their own advancement.
“Marginalized communities.” Yawn.
The implication is always that discrimination by whites “marginalizes” minorities. These minorities marginalize themselves with their criminal behaviors, fatherless homes and victimhood mindsets. They bring this on themselves.
Have 5 pharmacies within 2 miles of my house 2 within a mile, but then again I don’t live in Chicago
Vote democrat and find out ya retards.
Yup. If you were just reading the article without any context, you would think its all about racist corporations not wanting to serve minorities.
Though there are any number of pharamcies where I live, I mostly get my prescriptions from an online pharmacy these days. Much cheaper.
Nailed it.
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