DEA Proposes Reducing Opioid Manufacturing for 2018
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/dea-proposes-reducing-opioid-manufacturing-for-2018
Officials with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have proposed to cut the amount of controlled substances to be manufactured in 2018 by 20%, compared to 2017, according to a press release.
Under the proposed notice being published in the Federal Register, the DEA is taking steps to reduce more commonly prescribed schedule II opioid painkillers, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, codeine, meperidine, and fentanyl.
According to the press release, sales data obtained from IMS Health have indicated that demand for these pain medications has dropped.
The DEA considers data from the FDA, estimates of retail consumptions based on prescriptions dispensed, manufacturers’ disposition history and forecasts, as well as data from the DEA’s own internal system for tracking controlled substances transactions and past quota histories, to establish the Aggregate Production Quota (APQ) for the year.
The APQ determines the total number of controlled substances necessary to meet the estimated medical, scientific, research, industrial, and export needs for the year and for the maintenance of reserve stocks.
After setting the aggregate quota, the DEA allocates individual manufacturing and procurement quotas to manufacturers that apply for them. Additionally, the DEA may revise a company’s quota at any time during the year.
Reference
DEA proposes reduction to amount of controlled substances to be manufactured in 2018 [news release]. Washington, DC. DEA’s website. https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2017/hq080417.shtml. Accessed August 4, 2017.
The DEA’s primary charge is to arrest those who divert/sell illegal substances.. so if they cut the production quotas of legal opiate productions… it doesn’t take a group of Mensa people to figure out that this is going to mean that more people are going to be seeking/buying illegal drugs on the street.
More job security for the DEA and our judicial system.. Too bad that the vast majority of Congress is not bright enough to see thru this… or … maybe they are and since abt 40% of Congress is ATTORNEYS… They have no objection to funneling more money to the judicial system and their “fraternal brothers and sisters “
When the Control Substance act was signed into law in 1970 … it replaced the Federal Narcotic Bureau with a TWO MILLION dollar annual budget and created the BNDD ( Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) with a 43 million annual budget. Since then we have spent > ONE TRILLION fighting the war on drugs and continue to expend 81 billion/yr in fighting the war on drugs and Congress is discussing adding another 4.5 billion/yr and we don’t know how many more billions AG Session and Chris Christie is going to add with their planned additional programs.
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I’ve been pointing this out for a while now…it’s interesting how many CPPs haven’t thought of it. Illegal drug suppliers must be laughing their butts off, now more than even when this was first written.
To it concerns , please feel free to publicly post and use this my story and grief of this horrible malady and the the Hell the now uninformed Public and some of the Media are putting us legitimate Chronic Pain Sufferers through! It is no more than local emotional Abuse ( and border line Domestic Emotional Terrorism )!on a scale with only Biblical proportions!To the Editor and Associates I have taken this opportunity to share my heartbreaking story in hopes these witch hunting Opiate ill informed skeptics will read and understand that we as Millions Of Legitimate Chronic Pain Sufferers would have no life without Medically prescribed Opiates by a physicians care and strictly monitored monthly urine and blood test. Please remember that An Opinion Before A Thorough Investigation Is The Epitome Of Ignorance! And that a little more compassion from the Medical Field and its representatives could have saved my beautiful Stepdaughters life. Let me say this! A person who has a addictive personality will abuse anything that helps them feel better. I have taken Oxycontin for 12 years , I have had 20 major surgery’s in 9 years. I have so much physical pain I can not even get out of bed with out pain meds and when I run out I run out and just lay in bed praying the Lord relieve me of this horrible condition and I pray God you pain med skeptics never go through what I go through everyday of my life when the only thing you have to do is threaten what help I get, Shame on them! There will always be drug abuse and as the so called war on drugs has failed all this will! All you do is stoke and aid the drug pushers business to knew heights in the Black Market of Heroin while trying to deprive folks as me to this horrible movement! My Stepdaughter committed suicide 4 years ago because of being treated like a drug addict by her family and doctors when all along she suffered from Lupus and Fibromyalgia which I believe was brought on by a deadly car crash at 18 , she told me between that which I was being put through and what they were putting her through she was not going to be able to live her life in such a hell brought on by people like the Biased Uniformed Skeptics that are on a witch hunt to out law Opiates and pain meds that give us some sort of a life . As a retired Police officer and worked indirectly close to the DEA, you people do not have a clue how thrilled you are making the illegal opiate trade and think of my Late Stepdaughter as you continue on with this 2017 Version of the ( 1940s Propaganda Film named REEFER MADNESS )movement to outlaw opiates! Just like the slaughter of children at Sandy Hook if there would have just been gun laws , my God they were Gun Laws , the guns that murdered all those 20 children were all registered and owned by a school teacher! You fight Drug Addiction in Elementary education by teaching all children the dangers of Booze and Tobacco which if these witch hunters want for us to know the real truth but they do not. I miss my Stepdaughter so much and some of us will continue on the fight to protect our right to feel better and function without fear of these witch hunters trying to convince us to commit suicide . And they are trying to do exactly THAT and are now being successful in this under the table practice of Human Genocide!
They have had a laugh about this for a long time.
They apparently are going to keep on killing the chronic pain patients. I do not think demand is down rather the chronic pain patients have been denied opioids for their chronic pain and are either going to the streets or killing themselves!! The new Surgeon General is just going to be another person denying the benefits of opioids for chronic pain. His brother was apparently an addict. We are in the dark ages once again as far as pain care in the United States. In thirty years people then will look back on this time much as we look back on alcohol prohibition and wonder how stupid could those people have been!!! By that time cannabis will be legal. The United States hopefully will have leaders who will have advanced in intelligence.
Vic, I am 100% in agreement with you, esp with the legalization of cannabis. However, after watching my father-in-law suffer terminal bone cancer a few years ago, I can honestly say there’s not enough cannabis (which should be made legal on a federal and all states’ level) in the world that would have even touched his pain. I’ve been in a couple of acute situations (bleeding internally due to ovarian cyst rupture and ectopic pregnancy rupture within the tube) and can promise this as well. If people think that cannabis and kratom (which should also be legal in all states) will kill some types of pain, they may have a big eye opening if they ever suffer from specific types of pain. I’m literally dumbfounded why people are allowing this. I guess they’ve never watched a loved one suffer or suffered much themselves.