Way to go, Vice magazine/website!
A young guy trying to live a normal life with narcolepsy needs a tightly-regulated, prescription medication—that also happens to be a hot club drug—to function. So, let’s tell the world as many specific details about the delivery of his meds as possible!
You might as well put a giant sign that says “ROB ME AT GUNPOINT!” on both him and the service that delivers his meds.
Yeah, they gave the guy a pseudonym (as a caption under his picture!), but it was still WAY too much information—especially because they included links to more information about “chemsex” and “the dark side of GHB.”
Thinly—barely! practically nakedly!–veiled as “Narcolepsy Awareness,” the article is essentially a “How To” for people looking to score a GHB prescription illegally. Here are the symptoms you claim! Here are the words to use! It’s easy!
As if those of us living with chronic illnesses, like narcolepsy, didn’t face enough suspicion from medical professionals!
I mean, one of the questions the interviewer asks the guy is ”What’s the buzz like?”
Seriously?!?
Yes, I think the age demographic reached by Vice needs to learn more about serious medical conditions that may affect them or someone they love. But overtly linking a prescription medicine that’s helping people with a medical condition have a decent quality of life is NOT the way to do it. People living with narcolepsy deserve WAY better.
So using a Proclamation of Narcolepsy Awareness is a WAY better way to educate people about narcolepsy. You can find everything you need to write one here.
