Watchdog says DEA failures lead to drug shortage
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The Drug Enforcement Agency has yet to adequately address previous mismanagement issues that led to prescription drug shortages, the Government Accountability Office said on Wednesday.
In its initial 2015 audit, the GAO found that the DEA ineffectively handled the quota process used to manage the amount of legal drugs available in the U.S.
Drug manufacturers must apply to the agency for quotas to manufacture drugs, and according to the GAO, “DEA did not respond within the time frames required by its regulations for any year from 2001-14, which, according to some manufacturers, caused or exacerbated shortages of drugs.”
In 2015, the GAO made seven recommendations to the agency to solve these problems, and the DEA said it would implement each one.
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However, a subsequent report released on Wednesday found that the agency has implemented only two of the changes.
The first recommendation, which was implemented in March 2015, requested that the DEA finalize its information-sharing agreement with the FDA regarding drug shortages.
The second recommendation, which was for the DEA to strengthen internal controls over the quota system, was just implemented this month.
In Wednesday’s report, the GAO maintained that the five remaining original recommendations should still be implemented to prevent any future drug shortages.
According to the GAO, the DEA has now “identified steps it planned to take, including developing performance standards for responsiveness to manufacturers, but has not yet completed these actions.”
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Thank you for sharing your story,,,sadly,,,jmo,,your gonna have to keep telling it for these morons who are willfully committing torture,genocide and have not a shred of humanity in them,,,and hopefully truth ,”’wills”’ out,,,,and this now is a issue of ,”wills”,,,for u got idiots who now state,”i won’t back down,”’ like that is thee issue,,,,,not the reality of course,,,obviously quality HUMAN LIFE is thee issue here,,and not forcing physical pain onto the medically ill,,,but these idiots playing Dr.Government,,,,love to here their own horns,,,,even if it kills people,,,,sicko’s,,,,I am sorry for your loss,,,but,,,sadly hopefully your loss will help stop this witch hunt,torture,and willful genocide of the medical ill w/painful medical conditions,mary
Title : Government’s horrible War On Prescription Opiate pain medication.
I have taken this opportunity to share my heartbreaking story in hopes these witch hunting Opiate ill informed skeptics will read and understand that I 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 26 major surgery’s in the past 9 years. I have so much physical pain I can not even get out of bed with out pain medication 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 medically prescribed Opiate Pain medication 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 you! There will always be drug abuse and as the so called war on drugs has failed miserably every since the Government declared it. Now ,all this is doing is giving help and aid to the illegal Heroin cartel’s and drug pushers business pushing them to knew heights in the Black Market of Heroin while depriving folks as me of relief . Trying to label us legitimate Chronic Pain Sufferers as some type of Junkie and trying to align Chronic Pain Sufferers with Heroin Addicts in this horrible Witch Hunt !
My Stepdaughter committed suicide 4 years ago because of being treated like a drug addict by some of her family , friends and doctors when all along she suffered from Lupus and Fibromialgia 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 live her life in such a hell brought on by people like these Opiate Pain Medication Witch hunters that are on a witch hunt to out law Opiate pain medications that give us Chronic Pain sufferers some sort of a life . As a retired Police officer and worked directly close to the DEA, these people do not have a clue how thrilled they are making the illegal Heroin trade and think of my Late Stepdaughter as they continue on with this Witch Hunt movement to outlaw opiates! Just like the slaughter of The 20 Children and 5 Teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, 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 with the fight to protect our right to feel better and function without fear of these witch hunters trying to convince us to commit suicide or be forced to street drugs or the Legal government Boozers . And they are trying to do exactly THAT!
The under line real truth is THESE witch hunters would rather us Chronic Pain sufferers commit suicide are and DRINK all the BOOZE we can drink! The Federals legalized ( ALCOHOL) knowing its a more deadly drug than Strychnine. And just because the DEA has miserably failed with their war on illegal drugs why do they want to deprive us sick people of our Constitutional Rights to be Happy in that pursuit of with Professional Physicians monitoring legally prescribed Opiate Pain Medicines that give us relief of this horrible malady of Chronic Pain ! May God have mercy on their miserable souls they that seek to destroy us Chronic Pain Sufferers only and little hope of temporary relief of this horrible sickness.
My precious Stepdaughter and me about one year before she as the government wished committed suicide!
dea needs to be defunded,,,yesterday,,,,,,and ALLL the tax dollars we save,,,goes into chronic pain research,,,,,dea has caused all of this,,,it started w/them,,,mary
“DEA did not respond within the time frames required by its regulations for any year from 2001-14, which, according to some manufacturers, caused or exacerbated shortages of drugs.”
So for over 13 years, they didn’t do their jobs correctly or implement changes when they were told over and over and over to change this or that …. yet the dummies we elected are still using our tax dollars to fund them. Strange, maybe my boss is weird, but I’m pretty sure he’d fire me if he told me over and over to change something and I didn’t.
Say what ? They handled the shortage already , by denying medical intervention for chronic pain. Made to suffer / torture / neglect / abuse .