mayor joy is correct to recognize sachet use as a culture bc of socioeconomic realities—not bc ordinary people don’t support environmentalism.
and one of the most effective way to reverse that is by economic incentives! lfg, QC!! hope the rest of the country follows suit!!
When I was a kid, my parents put me on Ridellan.
My friend and I used to have to go to the nurses office at lunch to take it.
We would l put the pill in our cheek, swallow the water in the paper cup, spit the pill in the cup, and throw it in the trashcan.
We hated how it made us feel.
We were nine years old at the time.
Every now and then, my mom would make me take the pill with a glass of water, and check my mouth to see if I had cheeked the pill.
In hindsight, this told me she had a suspicion that I wasn’t actually taking the drugs.
Despite having the suspicion, this didn’t stop the doctor from upping the dosage, because the pills apparently weren’t working.
On one of the occasions that I had to take the pill, because my mom checked my mouth afterwards, I had a baseball game.
During the game, I couldn’t get the bat off my shoulders. I remember swinging at a ball after the catcher had already caught it.
That night, when we went home, it was the angriest I’d ever heard my father.
He yelled at my mom and told her he’s never taking another one of those pills again.
I distinctively remember him screaming at her “NEVER AGAIN KATHY!”
I think my dad saved my life that night protecting me from my evil mother.
He was the greatest man to ever walk this earth.
Many children today aren’t so lucky.