The Drug Enforcement Administration said late Friday it plans to reinstate once longstanding federal requirements for powerful drugs that were waived once COVID-19 hit, enabling doctors to write millions of prescriptions for drugs such as OxyContin or Adderall without ever meeting patients in person.
More screwing over patients.
Meeting in person does…what? Does the doctor have to smell their breath to doctor better? This is a dumb rule.
It’s not just opioids in short supply. Drugs used to treat cancer and attention deficit disorder (ADHD) are also hard to get.
Egged on by politicians, the Drug Enforcement Administration also aggressively cut production quotas for opioids and other controlled substances, reducing the supply of oxycodone by 65% and hydrocodone by 73% since 2013.
All of these problems have the same damn root. Democrats, especially, are dead wrong on this issue. There are too many impositions on patients.
If they’re more likely to fail out of school because of behavioral problems, emotional disregulation, and other elements of ADHD (for example), I don’t think that will benefit anyone. Likewise, older people will have a harder time with focus, productivity, and job loss. I’ll be curious to see if there any macroeconomic correlations with the shortage.
And who knows, maybe if it gets bad enough, the quacks will come up with an education system that doesn’t drug little boys to sit like zombies in a chair 7 hours a day.
People with ADHD performed quite well for thousands of years walking behind the rear end of a mule. That doesn’t mean they could perform well in a college classroom. Same thing with people who need glasses.