Telehealth Company Accused of Being Pill Mill for Adderall Says It Will Continue Treating Patients
Telehealth Company Accused of Being Pill Mill for Adderall Says It Will Continue Treating Patients
The DOJ alleges the company provided "easy access to Adderall and other stimulants for no legitimate medical purpose."
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This is a hard one. I think we can all agree that the people who need it should have it and the people who don’t…don’t…especially if their easy access to the drug pretty much guarantees a shortage of the drug for those who do need it.
I need it. And when there was a shortage just as we were forced to return to the office after Covid wfh, it was a nightmare. I don’t know for sure that this company was handing out prescriptions to whoever would pay or if they were mostly legitimate, but I imagine that it’s somewhere in between the two. And I do know that we will never be able to have a rational discussion about it between health professionals and the DEA/FDA, etc.
So, a lot of people who need it won’t get it either due to shortages or due to not being able to access a prescription for whatever reason.
Some people will continue to access it who don’t need it, but on a level that guarantees sporadic shortages for others.
No one wins other than those profiting either by selling prescriptions or by selling the drugs themselves at a much higher price than they paid for it using said prescriptions.
Rinse, wash, repeat.
It's not complicated to me, just make more. We should have a government funded drug producer for all the generics that the big companies don't think are profitable enough.
We shouldn't punish a population because a minority abuse something, that really only affects themselves.
I read this article a few months ago that I found quite interesting: Original link Unpaywalled link
The manufacturer in this blames the DEA, and whilst I don't trust a pharmaceutical company to do anything other than ruthlessly maximise profits, in this case I'm inclined to believe this depiction of the DEA as the overly persnickety bad guy (because I have even less reason to trust the DEA)