It could be worse. At the pharmacy, they ask you for your date of birth whenever you go pick up a prescription. That's how they verify that you can pick it up. You can send a spouse or family member or friend or personal assistant to pick up your prescriptions, too: you just tell them your date of birth and the pharmacy will just give them your prescription drugs, no questions asked. And if they have your insurance on file, they'll run it through, too.

OK, fine, whatever, except this is the same even for controlled substances. Which is quite weird considering all the other regulations around controlled substances. One time I had to get rid of some excess oxycodone after a surgery, I ended up having to go into a little booth at the sheriff's department where they had a drop box and a sheriff's deputy sitting at a desk behind a window watching me. But all my wife needed to pick it up in the first place was my name and DOB.