It's the government and CDC recommendations which are ridiculous!. They've been going after Drs and pharmacies. It's intimidated most Drs out of prescribing controlled medications and if they do the dosage is not adequate. Patients that require controlled medications for adequate symptom relief are being denied them, it's not just pain patients and opiates but anxiety and sleep disorder patients are also being denied medication needed for any kind of quality of life. I have narcolepsy and it's happening to us too. Lives are being destroyed over this. Drs have every reason to be afraid the dea will show up at their door, the result of this war on drugs is patients being left to suffer, some horribly or forced to take medications with terrible side effects in place of controlled meds. I've spent the last several years practically living in my bed because my Dr's are afraid to prescribe adequate dosages of my medication. I'm afraid to move where I really want to live out of fear I won't find a Dr willing to keep medication I have no life at all without. I might as well be dead without my medication. I wouldn't be able to take care of myself. It's very depressing knowing I could have much more life if it weren't for the fear the government has put in Drs. Having to jump through hoops I don't have the energy to jump through taking more from my already limited life. And for what? People are overdosing more than ever before, they aren't saving anyone they're causing even more harm.