One sentence, no reference to any statute or code to be changed?

GR people at least kick language around.

Lmao!

Anytime I’ve been on a SSRI I’ve quit cold Turkey, withdraws are for pussies.

You know what was difficult? Pregnancy

There are lots of reasons people end up HAVING to move- I specifically stated it’s a big military area and unfortunately when you get a new station, you can’t say no “due to lack of housing.”

Yeah…. Nah. Nobody is adding more to their plates. They have the training to be able to properly administer BC. It’s an option to start writing them. If someone is overwhelmed, they won’t.

I strongly recommend you take a step back and see what this actually is before responding again.

Did you even read the article?

I did GR in CT for 6 years. This is a well-established norm.

Beaver Hills - barely any inventory, houses go very quickly, my house is worth twice what I paid 10 years ago. Great neighborhood, large houses, beautiful architecture, close to downtown, hidden gem.

True

The atv / dirt bike thing is a problem in many east coast cities. Not just New Haven.

Eta: also, it’s safe lol. You clearly haven’t spent much time really exploring the city. But that’s cool, stay in the Yale bubble :)

Yeah actually. You can go into bad withdrawals if you suddenly stop an ssri or snri.

I don’t understand your point? I’m saying the pharmacists are swamped as is and probably shouldn’t be writing scripts in between playing catch up filling orders. While I support greater access to birth control, a person should be seen by a doctor, specialist or aprn (people with the right education and experience and know the patients medical history) to make sure that it’s safe for the patient to go on birth control.

The issue is women’s ability to have access and to establish/maintain patient doctor relationship (I’m saying they are a recurring patient to the same doctor and that doctor is taking ownership of their care) for pcp, specialists etc….in private without their parents, partners, family, whoever having input or knowledge of them seeking birth control.

The other issue is privacy for teens on their parents or guardians health insurance or adults on their parents…usually after each medical appointment a bill or statement goes to who ever has the policy.

I know responding to you is a lost cause but I’ll do it anyway. You of course realize that ready access to birth control drastically decreases the number of abortions because you don’t have to abort a pregnancy if you never get pregnant in the first place?

I remember a George Carlin routine from the 70s where he joked about over-the-counter birth control names. He had said eventually they would be over-the-counter, and the current setup is really silly -- "Ladies have to go in, 'Here's my note!'".

Fifty years later, they still need prescriptions for it.

I have been mugged and been rammed by a car on hillside ave I’m just speaking from experiences

What side of southington?

He's just straight up wrong. The level of housing shortage in New Haven is insane.

I'm gonna assume it's mostly theater.. but I also believe it's opening more channels for people to receive birth control. Less restrictions means it's harder to attack.. cause this is just another fight in the rights war on women's body autonomy.

Then allow them to sell it over the counter. Pharmacists don't prescribe medication, doctors do. This bill is really weird.

https://www.clayartcenter.org

https://www.silvermineart.org/

Pharmacists typically don't prescribe anything, they fill prescriptions given by a doctor.

> I'm assuming folks would consult with a doc before going on it..

Why not have the doctor prescribe it then? If people are going to a doctor first what's even the point of this bill

Don’t worry, I surely didn’t think you owned a CVS or Walgreens

How is that pregnant womens fault?

I don’t own Walgreens or CVS. Why are you telling me to hire people for a company I don’t own? CVS it’s already a nightmare to actually talk to the pharmacist. It’s usually one or rarely two pharmacists with not enough techs and a huge line of customers. CVS and Walgreens won’t even give a window for when they will get medication delivered if it’s on back order nor will they look up other stores’ inventories to tell you where to fill your script.

Agreed that fiscal crisis was probably the biggest thing spooking big employers, so it’s great we’re finally paying that down. It’s sad to see Lego go but I remember hearing this kind of news more often in the 2010s/during the Malloy austerity years, I feel like I hear more good news now than back then at least.

I’m hoping we eventually get some federal attention for our crappy infrastructure, which’ll help some of our cities’ problems long term. CT always pays much more FIT per person than we ever get back. I don’t think CT cities will turn around in my lifetime/next 50 years or so, but something ambitious like this would really set things in motion for future generations. https://hartford400.org/

Honestly I think a series of smallish improvements can really help. Like, we can speed up/flatten out the crappy Metro North tracks for faster commutes into NYC. I just took the Hartford line to New Haven, the train went 110 in some spots, it was great. Got to New Haven in no time. Then around Bridgeport you slow down to an unnacceptable 10 mph, who would bother taking the train if it’s that slow? Fixing that can’t be that expensive. It’s just adding fixing the ballast under the tracks?

We can take better advantage of transit we already have. Build some apartments on some of the parking lots in downtowns/near transit.

Honestly I don’t think improving our cities is as expensive or difficult as people think. Stuff gets proposed by private developers all the time. Just have to get past the NIMBYs

It’s v neighborhood dependent in New Haven.