A number of inflammatory, painful conditions can be managed with the use of methotrexate.
A 14-year-old girl in Tucson, Arizona, uses the life-saving prescription because it can be used to end an ectopic pregnancy.
"As a mother who has had to deal with my child being very ill most of her life, I was scared, I was really worried," the teen's mother, Kaitlin Preble, told local outlet KOLD News 13 I was trembling. I was overcome with emotion. I wasn't sure what to do.
Preble said it felt like a dream for her to be in high school. She has a social life and friends for the first time and a life all young people should have.
The Preble family's tale is not uncommon, as the outlet notes that Walgreens eventually conceded and prescribed the medication. According to a report from Vice, this is happening a lot, and over the weekend another Tucson parent took to social media to say that her child had the same experience.
Tucson is also here. The concerned parent wrote in the post that the daughter was on methotrexate. She's in her childbearing years. We're freaked out.
In July, the American College of rhythym issued an urgent message to pharmacy and lawmakers nationwide, begging them to allow patients to refill their prescriptions.
They said that Methotrexate is one of the most widely used and inexpensive medications for a variety of inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
Walgreens gave Vice an excuse for failing to ensure that life-saving methotrexate is available to the swaths of people who need it. According to an Insider report, Walgreens has donated upwards of $96,000 to politicians in seven states in order to get them to back certain laws.
Trigger laws require additional steps to be taken for certain prescriptions and apply to all drugstores. Walgreens told Vice in an email that their pharmacy works closely with prescribers in certain states to fill lawful prescriptions. We provide ongoing training and information to help our pharmacists understand the latest requirements in their area, and with these supports, the expectation is they are able to fill lawful, clinically appropriate prescriptions.
It's definitely true. Anyhow.
While the Preble family was able to get their hands on the illness-managing methotrexate, that doesn't seem like a future guarantee for the many others who need it.
As current and future availability of the drug remains unclear in abortion-restrictive states, the confusion and chaos that its restriction is causing will only continue to grow, showing how complicated abortion really is.
The teen couldn't get arthritis medicine after the abortion ban. She was not even pregnant at the time.
Facebook just sold out abortion rights to cops.
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