Maybe he isn’t a complete moron. This year, Georgie W (AKA Leader of the Free World, President George W. Bush) made a law out of a proposed amendment to the Controlled Substances Act that allows buprenorphine to be prescribed for substance abuse treatment from a doctor’s office setting as opposed to a drug treatment clinic. Doctors may now prescribe bupe to as many as 100 patients instead of 30.

Originally, each doctor that was certified to prescribe Subutex or Suboxone as a treatment for addiction to or dependence upon opioid drugs was allowed to have only 30 patients under his or her care receiving said buprenorphine treatment. Ostensibly, this was an attempt to limit the abuse of the drug. Clearly, this did nothing to limit the patients’ use of the drug once they returned home, just the ability of the prescribing physician to do an overwhelming amount of good from any one office.

In a surprisingly speedy adjustment to the strange limitation, it took only five years to remedy. Enacted in 2002, the regulations concerning Subutex and Suboxone patient limits were lifted from 30 to 100 per physician just this year. Considering everything else that passes through the consciousness of the government and the time it takes to prove every little thing with researched clinical trials and epidemiological surveys, that’s the equivalent of 5 weeks in the real world.

Go good government.

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