Quick Fix 7 | Your Home, Your Healthcare Records, Your Privacy

Clayton and Greg explain how the War on Drugs allows law enforcement to examine your medical records without a warrant.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Glad and this is
a war on drugs. Quick fix, Greg, what's going on
with back? Man? We are back? Could hear your voice? Clayton?
You too? Brother? Another quick fix? This one is with
Maya Salavitz. Editor Nick was obsessed with this and he

(00:21):
wanted it in the show. And you know, Michael booted it.
He he's the reason we have in quick fixes because
he cuts all this good information out and h I
think he gets paid by the episode, and so the
more quick fixes and something he takes out of the
full one. Oh he tacking on, Yeah, you owned something.
If it's one thing we learned here, it's followed the money. Yes, yes,

(00:45):
we've learned that on this podcast. It was right our
noses the whole time. So let's get into it. Man,
this is something I didn't know. I didn't know that
police were allowed to I let Maya tell you. So
we have just created a medical system and a pharmacy

(01:09):
system that is all about policing. I mean, law enforcement
can look at your prescription drug records, oftentimes without a warrant.
And this is particularly problematic for trans people because the
testosterone is a controlled substance, so they can tell if
you're trans they can tell if you're anxious. All of

(01:31):
this without a warrant. How is that even legal? Yeah? Yeah,
it's like everybody's like hip hippa, hippa, Like, oh, I
can't tell you my vaccine status because hippa, Well, hippa
doesn't protect you against the one thing that most people
really want to be protected against, which is police going
into their medical records. But if you have a medical
record of any controlled substance from you know, valium to

(01:55):
OxyContin or testosterone, they can look. In many states, they
can look without a warrant. And most states have interconnected
their prescription monitoring programs with those of other states, so
they can look across state lines too. And I don't
know how that gets policed, I mean policing up the police,
you know. And then there are these algorithms that are

(02:16):
made by private companies that you know, troll this data
to try to find out who's at high risk, and
you know, it pops up a red flag when a
doctor sees one of these patients and like, oh, look,
you've been to twenty doctors. Well, actually I go to
an academic practice and they're all part of a team.
And that's why it looks like I'm doctor shopping, but
it doesn't distinguish between that and actual doctor shopping. And again,

(02:39):
if somebody is actual doctor shopping, right, they need help
not to be hut off. I didn't know this was
something that was being done or could be. Yeah, it
feels like, you know, I'm even though I'm inturning, like
I did not want to get in like healthcare law
or anything like that. So I know, just like a

(03:01):
little bit about hippo. But man, I really thought that
your stuff was pretty much protected. Um. And again, the
war on drugs, it's kind of like civil as sports
or no knock Warren, Like, you think you're safe in
your home, but this kind of allows that that door
to open. And and you know, drugs are a gateway
drug to your your home, your healthcare records, your privacy. Um.

(03:26):
And I was blown away by what my you know,
I had to say about that. So I'm sure you
were too. I saw you. I saw your mouth just
drop when she was talking. And me too. All this
because of the War on drugs. Exactly. I'm Greg Glad
and I'm Clayton, English and this has been a War
on Drugs quick Fix Thanks for listening.