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So... now if you need an adderall prescription now costs you hundreds of dollars a month: you need a day off during the work week to see a doctor, who is likely

by olliej 4y ago

So... now if you need an adderall prescription now costs you hundreds of dollars a month: you need a day off during the work week to see a doctor, who is likely a out of network psychiatrist (because afaict most aren't in any network), and you have to pay the $1-200 that they charge for each appointment. It's almost like once a bunch of congress folk lost their payouts from the Sacklers (who recall essentially got away with mass manslaughter) they've decided it's time to be hard on drugs by punishing people with legitimate needs.

PragmaticPulp 4y ago
This is for the initial establishment of patient care. It’s not targeting the average doctor. It’s targeting the pill mills that were setup to prescribe Adderall as a subscription service. You paid a monthly fee to get Adderall prescriptions and the doctors would rush through a token “visit” to get through as many patients as possible in a day.
- olliej 4y ago
  To be clear the _only_ reason that service exists is because the government passed a law that required adderal be represcribed continuously rather than having an automatic refill as you would with every other prescription. People who need adderall prescriptions don’t spontaneously get better. Imagine the outcry if diabetes, or heart diseases, etc drugs started needing you to get a dr sign off every month: how long do you think before the same service would exist for those? This is very simple: congress consists largely of untrained people looking for “hard on crime” sound bites, and as long as they’re just targeting generics that aren’t super profitable it doesn’t hurt their pay days.
- faeriechangling 4y ago
  Sounds like a better and leaner service than what doctors offer, which is mostly a bunch of theatrics to justify the rents they earn from each adderall prescription, prescription adjustment, or renewal. Nobody would use doctors as their dealers if the DEA and co didn’t force everybody to cut them in.
  - olliej 4y ago
    Most doctors I have had prescribing things have been annoyed when they’re having to talk to me just to renew the same prescription. Obviously there are sketch ones as well, but I assume honest doctors have to deal with people moving to cheaper doctors because the cheaper doctors are just churning prescription renewals to be profitable so can charge less. Again: the alternative to these appointments is simply having auto renew prescriptions, as most recurrent ones are.

by olliej 4y ago

PragmaticPulp 4y ago

This is for the initial establishment of patient care. It’s not targeting the average doctor. It’s targeting the pill mills that were setup to prescribe Adderall as a subscription service. You paid a monthly fee to get Adderall prescriptions and the doctors would rush through a token “visit” to get through as many patients as possible in a day.

olliej 4y ago
To be clear the _only_ reason that service exists is because the government passed a law that required adderal be represcribed continuously rather than having an automatic refill as you would with every other prescription. People who need adderall prescriptions don’t spontaneously get better. Imagine the outcry if diabetes, or heart diseases, etc drugs started needing you to get a dr sign off every month: how long do you think before the same service would exist for those? This is very simple: congress consists largely of untrained people looking for “hard on crime” sound bites, and as long as they’re just targeting generics that aren’t super profitable it doesn’t hurt their pay days.
faeriechangling 4y ago
Sounds like a better and leaner service than what doctors offer, which is mostly a bunch of theatrics to justify the rents they earn from each adderall prescription, prescription adjustment, or renewal. Nobody would use doctors as their dealers if the DEA and co didn’t force everybody to cut them in.
- olliej 4y ago
  Most doctors I have had prescribing things have been annoyed when they’re having to talk to me just to renew the same prescription. Obviously there are sketch ones as well, but I assume honest doctors have to deal with people moving to cheaper doctors because the cheaper doctors are just churning prescription renewals to be profitable so can charge less. Again: the alternative to these appointments is simply having auto renew prescriptions, as most recurrent ones are.