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You all point out great aspects of the potential harm and prejudice against the HIV community with this breathalizer. I know I've been pressured to adhere ad nauseum (pun intended). I don't think us HIVers mean to create a stronger virus by not adhering 100%, but I remember how sick I got on one of the PI's and after leaving several messages for my truly great dr. that I would stop and needed an emergency appt. to switch meds, I quit while waiting 4 office beauracracy to resolve.
Reminds me of the electronic, data-emitting caps on Rx drugs that were supposed to track regimen adherence rates each time the patient "took" a pill out of the bottle when they really just opened and closed the cap. With the "SMART" system, one could just have a buddy on the same regimen blow into the system. I wouldn't worry about this system. They would need your consent. We all have a right to self-determination, which includes the right to receive and the right to reject treatment.
This will keep people from getting tested.Also continues stigma about adherence vs need to stop meds when toxic.It violates my right as a patient when I should stop meds without getting someones permission.Then being told I'm not adherent.Don't be bullied by doctors and pharma they work for you!Tell them NO if they want to do this test on you.
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I don't get along with this project at all. Thumbs down to this, & I for one will not ever use it. What a waste of grant money on some whacked out Florida firm (figures)!
Take the drugs, keep taking the drugs, otherwise you'll be punished. We don't want you cured, we want you hooked on the drugs, take the drugs, keep taking the drugs...
This is terrible, but we might as well get used to the fact that our technology can be our undoing.
Jeff Hammond
this smacks SOOOO much of Orwellian 1984 lore that it is scary. with the CDC power to quarantine and force inocculation with the H1N1 vaccine it is only a few steps away from any officewr of the law knocking on my dor and demanding i breath into the tube and throwing me in jail if my levels aren't up to the standards levels. or should i say heil hitler? cuz that's where we are going.
September 8, 2009 • Carrizozo, NM