I’d hope people get raided or at least some police investigation. Much of the process seems pointless otherwise.

None that I have on hand, no. Not in the US, at least. But do you agree that it's possible? The registry afford that capability. There are raids for far less.

I'm not trying to needle you. It's just nothing like alcohol, tobacco, etc. It's not even really like opioids.

Anyway, I think your conclusion is reasonable, even if we come to different conclusions. Mine is based on common benefit. I think the benefit that comes from the drug far surpasses the detriment.

Literally from today's news: an alcohol raid. So I guess technically correct it's nothing like alcohol.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/panther-pit-padl...

Here's a guy who narrowly avoided a raid for taking Claritin-D, so I guess your point stands: https://www.register-herald.com/news/nplex-tracking-system-h...

> Police also can look for people who might have purchased pseudoephedrine around the same time as the suspect, as a way to identify friends and conspirators.

ffs. is this what we want?

This appears to be a story about a guy who hit the limit in his state, with a reporter talking to an enforcement agent explaining why he looked nothing like an offender, followed by a story about a busted meth lab and their purchasing patterns in the database. It doesn't look like anybody narrowly avoided anything, and it's from 2013.

I object to the government pulling a medication report containing the name, date of birth, address, and ID number for me and the people in the pharmacy around the same time as me, and then setting a "watch" on me.

from the article:

> he showed up one day early to purchase his two-week supply.

Good thing he didn't show up in the next county one day early. Maybe that would've been enough for Goff to act.

The article also points out that pse remains non-prescription because if it were to become rx-only, the government would be prohibited from monitoring it. Here I was just thinking that prescription exists for the health and safety of the patient...

This whole thing is gross.

What's the significance of 2013?

"Medication report" sure does make it sound a lot scarier than an indication of whether you had allergies.

You get that there are already detailed, retained records of your actually-sensitive prescriptions, right?