Bill is one of millions of Americans for whom the prescription drug Adderall has been a godsend. And now there isn’t any. NONE. What if this happens to other medications? And how can conservative principles solve this problem (and, incidentally, all the other shortage problems too).
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But didn’t the market’s response to the demand for cheaper, cheaper, cheaper create the problem in the first place? As industries consolidate to drive efficiencies, they are creating single points of failure. We see this in meat packing, in semiconductors, in natural gas distribution… and in pharmaceuticals. Consolidation is destroying the market.
One observation encapsulates the discussion. “now you know why they wanted control of the medical sector with Obamacare” It’s life or death for many of us soon and all of us later.
I’m currently taking 8 different prescriptions for several reasons, so we’re lucky to get medical insurance from my wife’s job. She also takes drugs for her diabetes and restless legs.
If we weren’t able to purchase just 2 or 3 of them, it would make our lives’ very difficult, especially my depression meds. I’ve been taking a combination of 2 different medications for a few years now, and when I’ve either forgotten to take them or chosen not too, I feel the effects in less than 24 hours.
I know now that I can’t not take them, or I face the consequences, which are not pleasant. My wife’s prescription for her restless legs is a “scheduled” medication, so it’s controlled very carefully, and sometimes, it’s hard to get a re-fill before she runs out.
We are at the mercy of these huge corporations, and it seems to be very messed up.
I can’t get Trulicity as treatment for my diabetes because doctors are prescribing it as a weight-loss drug. My doctor called in my prescription on Wednesday and it’s still pending at CVS because they don’t have a supply source!
Another great post, but I can’t imagine the weekend release getting a ton of views. I get that you’ve been busy and have scheduling issues, but why not wave the posts until Monday? Just a thought
Guys, this has already happened. A while back, parents could no longer afford to buy epi-pens (epinephrine) for their hyperallergic children because the makers of the drug suddenly raised their prices by 600%.
Ah, yes. The infamous pharma-douche, Martin Schkrely! The man whose name sounds like a cartoon villain. Is he out of prison yet?
This situation is part of the “test”. It is a precursor of things to come. When AI takes over and currency is replaced by credits, there may be medications you need but you don’t qualify to get them, this is the future scenario. We have allowed the government to be bought out by Big Industry. Profit is the king and there is no place for compassion, honesty, justice or any of the other virtues humans have. I don’t know where the answer is but hopefully some people smarter than me can figure out the way forward. The regulatory system is something out of George Orwell’s 1984. Not only is Big Brother watching us –he is in control.
To Bill’s last point. Perfected by Barack Obama, and now taken to the level of steroidal enhancement- this is what I call flooding the zone. While they are doing one thing, they bring in several other things at the same time. This has the effect of making you so distracted that you cannot pay attention to ANY of them individually. It’s easy for them to do it- EO’s whatever- But for you to fight each one takes a phalanx of lawyers, and lots of court time. What they like about this is that if they do ten, and you successfully fight six of them, they still have four of them that stick. And the longer they stick, the harder they are to remove.
Think of a few of them- Don’t like the shutting of pipelines? Well, how about we also make a vax mandate? Don’t like that? Well, how about we attack your retirement income? Don’t like that? Well, how about we open the southern border? Don’t like that? Well how about we send your money to Ukraine? Dont like that….you know I could go on. And on.
Remember that term- Flooding The Zone. You will find the left practicing it everywhere. Our only hope is that individuals rise up in interest groups and fight each of these. Most will simply give up and hope somebody else tackles it.
If there was some research done you would have discovered that adderall is government controlled and that is why there is a shortage. The Covid lockdowns created an enormous increase in adderall demand but the government does not have real time statistics to determine how much to increase the allowed amount of adderall to be manufactured so they use figures from previous years.
I think … part of the problem is if it’s so cheap, how much money is to be made by me, a big pharma company, to start making it? As a percentage of my profit, that is?
On the other hand if there were such a thing as small pharmaceutical companies … the percentage to be gained would be substantially higher.
The name Sarah Hoyt rang an immediate bell… I associated the name with a conservative blogger (and I was correct, yay) but I’ve never really read anything but a random article of hers. I think I’ll go check her blog out for real now.
Outstanding topic and conversation, gentlemen.
ADHD. Pretty sure I had it. As an example, I had a (young, shapely, smart) high school math teacher whose summer school class I (unnecessarily) took because …
Anyway, one day early on I aimed the floor fan at the door and banged together erasers of chalk dust to shower over her as she entered the class and then jumped out a second story window.
My parents weren’t surprised. The principle wasn’t either. Straight A student with mostly Ds in conduct.
I wonder how many meds would have been funneled down my throat today?
The three of you are right on this one and it’s scary as Hell! How do we get past the main stream indoctrinators, to reach the low to zero information voters? Frankly, the only advantage to being 80 years old, is I won’t have to put up with this mess too much longer… but I wanna’ help rescue those of you who are going to have to deal with this when I’m gone.
Perfect timing to watch this. I’m making my own Hydroxychloroquine at the moment…
Speaking of EGGS, we are fortunate to be able to buy our eggs from several of the local AMISH farmers, at realistic prices. Thank God!
Couldja say that a bit louder? I’m a little deef in one ear…
If elections are being stolen (and they are) then how we vote is no longer a deciding factor in the governance we get!
There has been similar cases in the not so distant past. I have been on opioids for years due to back issues. I have been a woodworker and cabinet manufacturer for 40 years. Several years back, the cost more then quadrupled over night for these medications! It wasn’t because of a shortage but because of the government started telling doctors they needed to cut back on the amount of opioids they were prescribing, due to all the deaths being associated with opioids. The pharmaceutical companies, seeing one of their cash cow was getting put out to pasture decided to raise the price. This was when the country was coming out of the recession and crawling back to normal and at the time I didn’t have any health insurance so this was all out of pocket expense for me. It literally went from maybe $50 a month to $275 per month and as you stated, I would fore go paying other bills just to insure I could get the medication I needed to get through the day.
Now on another front let me talk about health insurance for a moment. Last year I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Thank God it was caught early and the cancer hadn’t grown into the tissue. Not proud of this but I have been a smoker for 40+ years and have tried to quit on my own with no success, but after having the cancer removed I asked my doctor for a prescription on Chantics. Chantics is a medication to help you to quit smoking and there is the name brand,(at$450 for a months supply) and a generic available. My insurance denied my prescription! Now I can go back to the doctor, for a mere $45 office visit, and have him write another for the generic and just pay for that myself. Unless that one is just as expensive?
The moral of my story is the two industries that are design to help people, really don’t care if you live with your pain and suffering or die a slow and painful death!
Just putting it out there…is Adderall or many of its base components made in US labs only? Or, perhaps key ingredients were offshored….as in across the pacific?
Teaches me a lesson…don’t post a comment until you hear from Steve Green. Was a little trigger happy with my comment!
Steve’s point about lowering expectations is so true. And it did not start recently. It started with things like lowered standards for certain groups to get into college–or even to graduate from high school. It is evident in the affirmative action programs that said that a person need not be qualified for a job–just needs to be of a particular group. The welfare program itself is a clear demonstration of low expectations by letting people do nothing and steal from those who work. Acceptance of fatherless homes is a big show of low expectations. Once all those low expectations were put in place for individuals, it is just another step to lowering expectations for the things that used to be commonly expected in daily life–meds, eggs, electricity, national defense, fiscal responsibility, et al.
Government regulations were supposed to help protect the population. However, they’ve morphed into a means for big businesses to suppress the little guy from becoming big competition. A large company doesn’t care about a $5 million environmental study, but that’s a non-starter for a startup.
A few years ago, the FDA came out with new deeming regulations for tobacco products. If you remember, people being injured by vapping was commonplace in the news. Well, these new regulations stipulated that any new tobacco product must be tested. Who wrote these regs? Phillip Morris. Why? It wasn’t for public safety. It was because vapping was reducing their sales by 20%.
In addition to the items listed by others I wonder if having all the major pharmaceutical companies divert capacity to the various victrolas also led to a reduction in capacity for other meds. Non-life saving ones and those “available” from several sources as they are generic would be the first to get reduced.
So the law of unintended consequences strikes again.
It’s absolutely insane. I stopped running my hot sauce business because of how complex actually meeting FDA regulations is. For flipping hot sauce. The gubmint has gotta go.
insulin is already over 40 bucks a vial, yet it has been “off patent” for over 50 years. however it is only made by a couple companies and the price is set. the other half of the equation is how pricing is set by the pharmacies who :negotiate: between the insurance companies and Pharma- then you throw in Government regulation- Ahh Transparency…
Bill, I sure understand. There’s nothing much worse than the on and on (and on it goes) discomfort of breaking a medication dependence. It seems to take place by shaking up the inside of your bone marrow. It’s unforgettable. It also precisely why I can’t take meds, because I have addict tendencies and have done this too many times already. Nope, not anymore. Praying for you my friend
You seem to have only posted to one of your Rumble channels again.
It would sem that you are screaming into the wind, and no one is listening.
That’s fine, They ‘said’ they appreciate it when we bring issues to their attention. Who knows, maybe one day they might actually take some suggestions from me, and realize I’m really, REALLY good at it. Helping others business’ become more successful, that is. I have a lot of history working in the entertainment industry.
I tried to help Zo build up his IMDb profile a few years ago, but I found out, that you have to have more than a “trial” membership to upload images to profiles. I’m all about helping, unless it has to come out of my pocket…lol. I’m no Rockefeller.
I did realize ACTS was right, I do have an ‘agenda’ here…it’s to see my, once favorite political commentary gang get back on top like they used to be. Oh, and hopefully inspire Bill to rethink “Theistic Evolution”, and realize evolution is antithetical to Christianity and the Biblical account of Creation…but the Holy Spirit hasn’t given me the right opening for something like that yet.
There is a point though, in which I must surrender to the possibility, that this is not my calling here at all. In which case, I’ll move along. I just hope it’s not a “pearls before swine” situation. God forbid.
It depends on how one defines “evolution.” Do you mean macro-evolution where all life spawns from a wholly-random process without either thought or direction? Okay, I’m with you there. Do you mean micro-evolution in which small incremental changes occur within all living organisms, which subsequently makes species stronger (or weaker) over time? I will dissent from your assertion, because you would be as guilty of putting God in a box by refusing t oaccept all things are possible according to his will — including evolutionary processes.
“Theistic evolution” just sounds like a variation on either the term deism or the micro-evolutionary process, to which I referred. Once again … definitions are paramount to any hope of persuasive duscussion.
Macro of course…’Micro-Evolution’, is a misnomer. Evolution has an opposite, “devolution”. Secular scientists have deluded the definitions. They define evolution as, “a change” instead of “a positive change”. So they now use the term interchangeably. Which I chalk up to linguistic entropy, or devolution…lol. Theistic Evolution is a marriage between theism, and Micro-evolution.
I’ve had more debates than I can count. And when an Atheist asks that question, they aren’t looking for the actual answer…it’s usually deflection, or moving the goal post.
Got Questions defines it sufficiently… https://www.gotquestions.org/theistic-evolution.html
I have to start by saying that I can relate to Bill’s issues. I am 56 years old. When I was a child, there was no diagnoses for being “on the scale”. Looking back, I had ADHD. I remember sitting in class thinking about a dozen different things at the same time. In one thought process I was thinking about my childhood hero, Superman. In another I was thinking about the fact that my parents were going to take us to see the IceCapades. At one point those two thought processes collided… and I suddenly saw Superman in a tutu. I burst out laughing in class, and got in trouble. At the same time, I have spent my whole life, almost every waking moment, fighting not to fall asleep.
I mentioned that embarrassing story, to say this: There are other options than pharmaceutical chemicals. I grew up in an abusive household. To avoid going into irrelevant details, my dad was sentenced to two years for felony child abuse. If we got grades that did not measure up to dad’s standards, we got beat. This… incentivized me to find a solution. I learned how to focus in a way that actually causes a physiological change, it causes a raise in blood pressure in the brain. Using this technique, which I have taught to others, I was able to push myself to be awake, as well as forcing myself to focus on one line of thought (instead of 12).
There is a bigger problem here. Any time that any government can make it’s people NEED… anything… then the people become slaves to that need. Some of that is unavoidable, such as food, water, things like that. Pharmaceutical grade drugs should not be one of those things. We have gotten used to the idea that illness is just a normal part of God’s creation. If it were not for our own poisoned food, poisoned water, and poisoned air, many of our health problems would not exist. God did not create us to be in a constant state of disease! We should not accept a constant state of disease as the norm.
Personally, I would want to discover an alternative to any such need. I believe that the government strong arming it’s people using such needs is not an if, but a when.
Wow! You’re a true survivor. Great points about government control. Powering through has taught me that the silver bullet fix, is often iatrogenic, in the long run. There’s the price
Candace Owens had some interesting things to say about the egg shortage. I don’t know if I believe it, but I have to tell ya, I don’t disbelieve it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGIs52vM1Yg
And about the bird flu…
This has been a “crisis” for decades. I can remember “them” trying to gin up hysteria over the bird flu twenty-five years ago; it was about to make the leap from birds to humans and kill us all. Back then we weren’t stupid enough to buy into it.
Also, if the bird flu is so epidemic at this point in time, wouldn’t we see dead birds all over the place? I’m just not seeing it, and I have a lot of birds in my yard. It would seem that the only birds being infected are flocks of egg laying chickens on small farms, at least those are the ones I’m hearing about on the “news.”
I watched Candace on the video and read many comments done by people who have chickens. Over and over, they say that what she said was exactly their experience. Purina should be sued into oblivion!
Like many of your topics, this one made me curious to look into it further. Your conclusion that governance is at the root of the shortage is spot on.
The isolation and stress of mandated shutdowns led to an unprecedented increase in demand for Adderall and similar medications among adults and children.
Government regulations limit the amount that can be dispensed to patients so manufacturers base production on those projections. The projections are based on historical data which lags behind real-time demand, and demand was unprecedented.
Finally, the bureaucracy of the DEA was slow and inconsistent in responding to the manufacturers’ requests for increased production. Hence, a shortage. And not caused by an inability to manufacture.
It’s a perfect storm. Government was unable to deal with the consequences of its own ill-conceived actions.
Sadly, people who depend on these medications may turn to more readily available drugs that are less safe.
Thanks, guys. I learned something new today.
Thank you!