DEA looking for comments on their proposed opiate production quotas

When/if you download the 20 page proposed regulations… pay particular attention to PAGE 4 of that *.PDF… it explains the “statistical parameters” that the DEA used to come up with the “ESTIMATED DIVERSION ” of particular controlled substances.  First of all the database was on only 24% of the population – from only 17 different states PDMP databases and some “numeric numbers – like MME’s above a certain MME/day – would be a indication of diversion. Everyone – but the DEA – knows that those MME conversion programs are CRAP .. all one has to do is look at the footnotes on this MME conversion program https://globalrph.com/medcalcs/opioid-pain-management-converter-advanced/ The DEA should be ashamed to even state their “diversion numbers ” as estimates…. a more appropriate label would be “GUESSTIMATE ”  While our population typically grows abt 1% +/- in 2010 USA pop was 309 million and 2020 pop was 331 million.  Opiate Rxing peaked in 2011-2012… so while our population grew some 7%… the DEA has reduced opiate production quotas by some 50%.. New chronic pain pts are created every day from accidents to surgeries with BAD OUTCOMES.

Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas for Schedule I and II Controlled Substances and Assessment of Annual Needs for the List I Chemicals Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, and Phenylpropanolamine for 2022

https://www.regulations.gov/document/DEA-2021-0014-0001

https://downloads.regulations.gov/DEA-2021-0014-0001/content.pdf

 

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  1. Just a fyi here,,in regards to our abusive federal agency DEA.I watch a program on channel 208 here,,called ,”To arrest a Indiana drug doctor,,”,unquote..The dea agent stated on national t.v.,,that Pain management and the doctors who run them ,and i quote,,,”Are not practicing medicine,the field of Pain management is NOT the practice of any medicine,,”unquote..This dea agent stated,”they could look at the people going into these ,”things,” and could tell right off no-one was truly sick,” unquote..This is why they keep comming..THEY LITERALLY HAVE NO CLUE,NONE,,,WHAT PAINMANAGENT IS,,,NONE,,,maryw

    • Well money, …and sometimes just keeping your job, is worth very far much more, in their minds, than other’s health..

  2. Why would they do this?

    • Because they are “law enforcement” and they follow the rules – when things has to be “public”…they published the proposed changes…. they have a open comment period…. then they implement the changes as they were first proposed. They have dotted their “i’s” and crossed their “t’s”… making it harder for someone to challenge how they did the changes.

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