According to perplexity.ai the USA’s population was 318 million in 2014 and 340 million in 2024, a 7% INCREASE in our population. If one come to the conclusion that the percentage of our population is going to need opioids for acute/chronic pain and the DEA decreases the available Oxycodone by 6%.
This law – 42 USC 1395: apparently this law was appended along with Pres Johnson’s “great society” program that created Medicare & Medicaid in 1965. So we are approaching 60 yrs that not a single DOJ has bothered to try to enforce this law.
When the “Great Society” was created in 1965 our national debt was 260 billion and today about national debt is in the ~ 35 Trillion and roughly 36–38% of the U.S. population had Medicare or Medicaid coverage in 2014.
The question has to be asked – how many people are on Medicare Disability & Medicaid because their pain management meds have been taken away by various parts of our bureaucratic/judicial system? How many chronic pain pts are no longer around because they could no longer tolerate their torturous level of pain and committed suicide or died a premature death from their under/untreated pain.
here is a link to the entire proposal https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/28/2025-21509/proposed-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and-assessment-of
click here to make your comments: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/DEA-2025-0654-0001
435 members of the House are up for re-election next year and 35 Senators are up for re-election next year.
Then there is the agreement between most state AG’s and the 3 major drug wholesalers that control about 85% of the wholesale community pharmacy market
Agreement with State Attorney Generals and three major (short version)
agreement with state AGs (long version)
Then there is this law from 1935 – 35 yrs before the Controlled Substance Act was signed into law
42 USC 1395: Prohibition against any Federal interference
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:42%20section:1395%20edition:prelim)
§1395. Prohibition against any Federal interference
Nothing in this sub chapter shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee of any institution, agency, or person providing health services; or to exercise any supervision or control over the administration or operation of any such institution, agency, or person.(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVIII, §1801, as added Pub. L. 89–97, title I, §102(a), July 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 291 .)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
For short title of title I of Pub. L. 89–97, which enacted this subchapter as the “Health Insurance for the Aged Act”, see section 100 of Pub. L. 89–97, set out as a Short Title of 1965 Amendment note under section 1305 of this title.
Protecting and Improving Guaranteed Medicare Benefits
Pub. L. 111–148, title III, §3601, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 538 , provided that:
“(a) Protecting Guaranteed Medicare Benefits.-Nothing in the provisions of, or amendments made by, this Act [see Short Title note set out under section 18001 of this title] shall result in a reduction of guaranteed benefits under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.].
“(b) Ensuring That Medicare Savings Benefit the Medicare Program and Medicare Beneficiaries.-Savings generated for the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act under the provisions of, and amendments made by, this Act shall extend the solvency of the Medicare trust funds, reduce Medicare premiums and other cost-sharing for beneficiaries, and improve or expand guaranteed Medicare benefits and protect access to Medicare providers.”
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