basquebromance
Diamond Member
- Nov 26, 2015
- 109,396
- 27,112
- 2,220
- Banned
- #1
The inspector general revealed that from 2003 through 2013, the DEA’s Office of Diversion Control approved increasing the aggregate production quota for opioids by more than 400%. The Office of Diversion Control also increased active registrants to 1.6 million from 2005 to 2015, an increase of 45%. Meanwhile, from 2013 to 2017, opioid deaths rose by 71% — all while the DEA kept increasing the allowable flow of the drug in the marketplace.
The inspector general reported that the Office of Diversion Control did not conduct background checks or otherwise check-out applicants properly. In essence, the Office of Diversion Control was rubber-stamping registrations to produce, deliver, prescribe, and sell opioids without performing even simple background checks or going beyond applicants' affirmations, via checkbox, that they lacked criminal records
So although several drug distributors ended up footing a $260 million bill for the economic burden that two Ohio counties suffered from the opioid crisis, the actions and inactions of the last administration are what really put the opioid crisis into overdrive.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/e1905.pdf#page=1
The inspector general reported that the Office of Diversion Control did not conduct background checks or otherwise check-out applicants properly. In essence, the Office of Diversion Control was rubber-stamping registrations to produce, deliver, prescribe, and sell opioids without performing even simple background checks or going beyond applicants' affirmations, via checkbox, that they lacked criminal records
So although several drug distributors ended up footing a $260 million bill for the economic burden that two Ohio counties suffered from the opioid crisis, the actions and inactions of the last administration are what really put the opioid crisis into overdrive.
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/e1905.pdf#page=1