They literally just switched it to something else. If you're on gabapentin for anything off-label (anxiety, bipolar disorder, ect) then, congrats, you're a victim of the opioid crisis!
Not to mention all the abandonded addicts held captive by their own country's medical system. I know people that are being denied help because a doctor prescribed them something that makes them a red flag patient. They didn't want to be an addict you told them it was their only hope!
Please ignore me I'm manic rn
I'm uninsured right now so I am not but my wife is. Her experience is basically yours.
One thing I think we really need to think about going forward, is why mental health within the constraints of capitalism aren't effective at treating so many diseases of despair. Richard Wolff's wife, Margret Fraud, offers some Marxist/socialist analysis of mental health that focuses a lot on how material conditions affect mental health. I think stuff like that is important but I'm not sure how to communicate it.