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Because it can be dangerous if misused. It's a steroid, so body builders would use it constantly. It's a sex hormone, so people would use it to masculinize the
by BizarroLand 1y ago
Because it can be dangerous if misused.
It's a steroid, so body builders would use it constantly. It's a sex hormone, so people would use it to masculinize themselves and amp up their sex drive, and it's part of the pubertal cycle so children exposed to it pre-puberty can have masculinizing pubertal side effects before their actual puberty starts.
- Spivak 1y agoI'm not saying to sell it over the counter but surely just bring a prescription would be sufficient. I see medspa clinics advertising it to men for its masculinizing effects so it can't be that hard to acquire.
- BizarroLand 1y agoYou asked why it was a controlled substance. It's not hard to acquire. Doesn't mean that it's not a controlled substance. And in fact it is sold over the counter in other countries like Mexico. You get a "prescription" from the "on-site pharmacist" who is actually just some person who works the register.
- Spivak 1y agoIs that how that works?! I've always wondered what legal trickery they used since Mexico isn't listed on the WHO's list of countries who don't require Rx for antibiotics.
- BizarroLand 1y agoPretty much. I went on vacation and went into a pharmacy out of curiosity, and they had a laminated card of steroids and other drugs you could get with pre-determined prices and no medical examination required.
- immibis 1y agoWouldn't needing a prescription be... a control?
- leoh 1y agoYes, but the DEA is unrelentingly cranky and likes to tell physicians how to practice medicine despite swearing up and down that they would never, ever do that.
- klooney 1y agoCalifornia used to have a medical marijuana program where access was supposed to be controlled by requiring licensed physicians to prescribe it. Turns out there's enough disgraced doctors to rubber stamp huge volumes of prescriptions, rendering the control a joke. If the DEA isn't cranky, we go back to pill mills.
- ranger_danger 1y agoWhen people in the (US at least) healthcare industry use the word "control" they are specifically referring to the well-defined "controlled substances". In the context of the legally defined controlled substances or "scheduled drugs", no, needing a prescription does not automatically mean it is a controlled drug. Is a prescription inherently a type of 'control' against who can access certain drugs? Sure, but I don't think anyone was arguing that.
- terminalshort 1y agoEverything can be dangerous if misused