Em's doctor said that, like Amy said, in order to crack down on those using it to get high instead of to live their lives, the FDA siad, "You drug companies only get this much of this vital ingredient to make these drugs." Well, it's not enough to meet demand and thus, delays. We've been lucky in that Em's Concerta doesn't seem to be affected. It's totally ridic.
IMemememe-ness: the car won't start this morning and I have about 7000 things to do like Em's ballet class, picking up her BFF for a sleepover, runs to Target, the library, and Krogers, the Bollywood dance class the three of us were going to take, and oh ... just EVERYTHING. It's totally karmic payback for using my car as an excuse to not go somewhere last week when the car was fine.
However, combined with the fact that I quit smoking on Tuesday and there is no nic gum in the house b/c Joe accidentally took it all to work with him and now I'm stuck in BFE with no nicotine and no wheels, I am now a sobbing mess screaming at Joe on the phone to just tell me where the GD cigs are already there HAS TO BE A PACK HIDDEN SOMEWHERE and alas - there is not. Gah. I'm this close to firing up Joe's pipe just to get some damn nicotine.
OMG. Freaking Click and Clack. Joe heard them tell a woman JUST RIGHT NOW to turn on the heater fan on high and start the car. So Joe called me and told me to try it.
It freaking worked. WTF??
Em's doctor said that, like Amy said, in order to crack down on those using it to get high instead of to live their lives, the FDA siad, "You drug companies only get this much of this vital ingredient to make these drugs." Well, it's not enough to meet demand and thus, delays.
I think that, 9 times out of 10 (or more, maybe 9.5 times out of 10), the FDA's functions are good and necessary. But cutting off drug ingredients that are medically necessary because of the possibility of street abuse is bullshit.
My IV anti-emetic of choice (it's also very effective with migraines) has been out of production for months. This means I get it orally, and then an IV each of the other two, and it's really not as good. But they had a "manufacturing issue" and now there's just none in the country.
I feel really bad for the chemo patients that relied on it. Pretty bad for me, but awful for them.
It's actually the DEA that's making the call -- the FDA is the good guy here: [link]
One of my costume students has had problems getting Adderall as well, and it is really noticeable when he has not had it. I totally sympathize-- if they did that with Celexa I would be screwed.
It's actually the DEA that's making the call -- the FDA is the good guy here: [link]
That makes more sense, for very relative values of "sense".
I had not heard about the ADHD drug shortages. Sounds like a mess and like precisely the wrong way to go about things. The drugs are too useful to make them so hard to get. I have complicated feelings about the college kids who use it as a study aid (meaning the ones who aren't prescribed it by their doctors). On the one hand, calling it "drug abuse" seems like the wrong term since they aren't really abusing it--they aren't going on a study bender!--but on the other I do worry about long term use of such powerful drugs without a doctor's supervision.
I feel really bad for the chemo patients that relied on it.
Zofran (ondansetron)?
It's actually the DEA that's making the call -- the FDA is the good guy here: [link]
Oh my god, reading that article, it's all such a clusterfuck of ridiculous proportions. I didn't realize that there were "adequate" supplies of brand-name drugs, but not enough generic. That's crazy-making.
