List?where? Of what? I'm lost bro
The DEA has asked the FDA to discuss changing the schedule of hydrocodone. It seems that the U.S. consumes the vast majority of all hydro manufactured in the world and the DEA is certain much of it is diverted. They made a request several years ago and were denied but this time the panel that makes such decisions on anything but schedule one drugs are agreeing that there is an epidemic. The DEA plans to put hydrocodone in the schedule with morphine and opana and the like. This willl mean something like - doctors will bear extra scruteny, they will not be able to prescribe more than a month's supply at a time, pharmacies will have to keep the stuff locked up and have to adhere to a higher standard of reporting.
What it will do is make hydro more scarce and more valuable. The panel claims that there are other drugs that will be just as effective and that other countries are already using such drugs - the reason they do not consume nearly as much hydro as the U.S.
I don't know the particulars as the change is still pending but I am fairly certain it will go through. Hydro is made by a number of different companies, it being a generic drug and so I doubt there will be much of a lobby to keep it in it's current schedule.
If you are a hydro lover like I am, it is time to begin to hoard them in any way possible, and I pity those who actually need the stuff. I have a friend who has no colon and has an inoperable hernia. They switched him to Opana and he has a hell of a time each month getting his script refilled - he used to use hydro for breakthrough (and always had a handful for me when I came to visit), now he will be using codiene or, if he is lucky oxycodone in those nickle caps.