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.

Why is Chuck not on Hulu? Or the NBC website? Or On Demand???

What is wrong with the world?

Signed: I made the wrong choice about which show to watch at 7 pm on Friday.

Zofran I'd the only anti-nausea med I'm not allergic to. Certainly not as much of an issue for me as for chemo patients, but scary.

It is crazy making. Even crazier is the $190 jump in cost to the patient. That's just fucked up.

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.

This explains his other problem, which is getting the Nurse Practitioner at the college to prescribe it for him. For me, it is just so obvious that he needs it-- he has a pretty hard time even when he is on it, but I think it takes the edge off just enough that he can use coping techniques. Again, I can relate, because my Celexa use doesn't mean I don't have emotions or get sad, but it does mean I can have some control.

Are the companies only doing this with mental illness meds, because that goes back to the "isn't really a sickness" train of thought, which also sucks. I mean, would they for example, ask someone to pay for extra insulin or blood pressure meds?