Thread by @HappyWarriorP

I don't say it often outside of @maiasz reporting;
but the New York Times did a great job covering this story,

nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/… #opioids #chronicpain #disability #adhd #medtwitter

Not a fan of the headline cuz it downplays the story
issue isn't that some folks cannot get Ritalin

the big story is that Federal Prosecutors forced an unconstitutional measure on distributors to curb drug access to pharmacies regardless of how it harms patients

What is happening is what I warned you about; trying to fix a drug crisis by withholding access

Pharmacies are being forced to cut patients off after they divvy out a certain number of drugs to the local populace.

& then every other patient gets screwed
nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/…

If I told U a company was forcing Wallgreens to stop giving diabetics insulin cuz only allowed to serve a certain amount of patients & then the rest of their diabetic customers would have to go w/out

itd be THE NATIONAL HEADLINE; that's what is happening here, but w/ psych meds

What the New York Times fails to point out is that the list being used to determine what drugs are limited is the controlled substances list

100% political;

list based not on the risk of addiction or harm to patients; but laws passed by congress or nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

So what's happened in effect is that pharma distributors are cutting off access to meds, not cuz those meds cause addiction but because of politics

This is insane, its unconstitutional & it's likely to stick around until congress or SCOTUS kills it

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