Hey, it is just my personal Zero Tolerance Policy for asshats who think it s fine to deny those in chronic pain needed meds for fear someone else, somewhere, might someday get high on them. And in the process, ruin the careers of doctors who try to treat those patients in chronic pain. Meanwhile, they pressure drug producers to adulterate narcotics with toxic substances. so that something less than 400 folks die each year and 24K end up hospitalized...with severe liver damage.
Those folks are evil and I'll not willingly associate with them any more than I would a child molester.
For the record, it's not up to the DEA who does and does not get CIIs, CIIIs, CIVs or anything else. That is dependent upon the doctor, and pharmacist in some cases.
If you actually knew what the state boards of pharmacy and DEA track when it comes to "Pill mills", you wouldn't be so quick to... quick to say whatever it is you're saying. There are pain management clinics that have to maintain a "pain management" status with the people in charge, and they don't have any trouble.
There are other doctors, however, who will pump out 500+ prescriptions for CIIs in
one day. They arrested an 80 or so year old MD in Austin recently who pushed that number.*
Allsoooo foooor the record: the hydrocodone/apap or ibu combo drugs aren't combo drugs just because someone thought it would be a good idea to poison people who abuse those drugs. If you'd like, you can look up the efficacy trials comparing the combos and other drugs.
Furthermore, if you think liver damage is worse than the effects of opiate addication/overdose/etc.. you're mistaken.
Sources:
*An hour long presentation given by the head of enforcement at the texas state board of pharmacy