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When family members share prescription medication out of necessity

I take my grandfather's diabetes medication sometimes when I cannot afford my own because we have the same condition, but I know the doses are different.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Family bonds and economic desperation create dangerous intimacies with each other's medical needs.

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