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Mixed feelings about this too. I want to know that a prescriber is taking it seriously, but also, making a doctors appointment is surprisingly really hard for me to do. I don’t mean because of a busy schedule. I meant it is just really difficult for some neurodivergent people to do things that other people can do easily.
Online treatment has made it more accessible for people like me and I may not have sought treatment otherwise.
Being able to schedule a doctor's appointment for anytime during a 24 hour period has been such a massive breath of fresh air for me (also neurodivergent)
It's hard enough for normal appointments but scheduling a doctor's appointment is especially difficult
I’m pretty not neurodivergent generally, but I also seriously struggle with this. My partner is exceptionally adept at navigating these things, if we had the same health problems I definitely would have died (no hyperbole) already for lack of being able to reach care the way things are set up.
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)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The executives were charged with providing “easy access” to Adderall and other stimulant medications to treat ADHD and submitting “false and fraudulent claims for reimbursement.”
“Done Global strongly disagrees with the criminal charges filed last week against our founder, Ruthia He, and Dr. David Brody, which are based on events that principally occurred between February 2020 and January 2023,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
“Since our founding, Done Global has worked to make mental health care accessible for tens of thousands of Americans trapped in a spiraling national crisis,” a spokesperson for the company told Gizmodo.
“We will continue to support our clinicians as they exercise independent clinical judgment, practice evidence-based medicine, and provide best-in-class health care,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a statement in the immediate aftermath of the indictments last week warning that there’s an increased risk of injuries and overdoses if Done Global isn’t able to prescribe medicine.
The concern is that legitimate patients who use Done Global, which could be anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 people in all 50 states according to the CDC, will turn to riskier ways of treating themselves, including black market or illicit drugs.
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Ruthia He, founder and CEO of Done Global, and David Brody, the clinical president of Done Health, were both arrested last week in California, according to a press release from the DOJ. But a spokesperson for the company told Gizmodo the company doesn’t agree that they did anything wrong.
I use the same excuse for supplying medical cocaine.
