Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adderall. But it's meth

Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by hotpotamus on Monday December 25, 2023 @01:22PM (#38764783)

Yes - why, as your own source says, are amphetamines prescribed at 4,000 times the rate of methamphetamine? Is there no reason for that? Why does the medical system have such a bias?

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Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by soudiere on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:06PM (#38767188)

Many reasons, that's a different discussion.

Note that you've gone from this statement, to acknowledging that they are regularly prescribed.

> Imagining a doctor writing a script for meth is pretty amusing, and maybe if that’s not a cool enough drug, they can hand out some crack or something.

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Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by hotpotamus on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @07:08AM (#38771103)

I assume in a country of 300 million people, every prescription drug is probably prescribed to someone. I’d say what I take issue with is “regularly”. I’ve known many people who have prescriptions for amphetamine, and zero who ever got a prescription for methamphetamine (though certainly some took it anyway).

The 4000:1 prescription number would seem to corroborate my impression that it is quite rare.

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