> For about a year and a half I had to call around checking inventory before calling my doctor. The other improvement here is that the DEA started allowing pha

> For about a year and a half I had to call around checking inventory before calling my doctor. The other improvement here is that the DEA started allowing pharmacies to transfer patient prescriptions for controlled substances, so you don’t need to call your doctor and hope they send it out to the location with inventory quickly enough. But only once, to keep life arbitrarily difficult. Gotta make life easier through more rules, never fewer! https://www.dea.gov/stories/2023/2023-09/2023-09-01/revised-regulation-allows-dea-registered-pharmacies-transfer https://www.dea.gov/stories/2023/2023-09/2023-09-01/revised-... The DEA still has some restrictions on moving inventory between pharmacies, which can still prevent pharmacies from balancing supply and demand in a way that’s transparent to end-users.