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If we get to the point of having to ration it, priority is to the people who genuinely need it for normal range of functioning.

(Wean off those without genuine disability, who are using the drug as a performance enhancer.)



How do you propose that? Afaik, everyone who has access to it has a prescription for it. And the predicate for having a prescription is a diagnosis. On paper, everyone genuinely needs it.


(I said "genuinely" to distinguish from "on paper".) I don't know how to execute on reducing the juicing use of these meds. One idea is to start going after pill-mill doctors, like for opioids?




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