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  • Ben the Bones Kinnerbengesko@plush.city
    Jul 5, 2026, 10:18 AM

    RE: masto.ai/@transworld/116864660

    This is HUGE because being prescribed a controlled substance means you're put in a database with the DEA.

    This means any trans person prescribed testosterone is in a database and can be targeted by our transphobic government.

    This is protecting trans folks in addition to making it more available.

    Clarification: This doesn't end this database, as it's still federally controlled. It IS however, a huge step forward if other states adopt this.

    (Apologies; originally posted while migrainey)

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  • MelMelezioh@mstdn.games
    Jul 5, 2026, 2:34 PM

    @bengesko unfortunately it is still a controlled substance at the federal level but this is still a huge positive step.

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  • Kay OhtieKayOhtie@blimps.xyz
    Jul 5, 2026, 5:04 PM

    @bengesko wait, CII-CIII and higher gets you federal level logging?

    I'm aware of state-level, handled by shitty private corps that use phrasing like "drug utilizations" but had no clue there was now a federal list separately?

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  • Ben the Bones Kinnerbengesko@plush.city
    Jul 6, 2026, 3:23 AM

    @KayOhtie The lists could be cross checked on a state level when I last worked in the medical field, I can't say if that's still the case.

    The list is maintained by the DEA, and every doctor has their own prescribing number that their active prescriptions are filed under.

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  • Kay OhtieKayOhtie@blimps.xyz
    Jul 6, 2026, 3:28 AM

    @bengesko I know docs have their own DEA numbers, but I wasn't aware of prescriptions themselves being logged at the federal level, only state and, fucked-uppedly, by private corporations.

    I should know because I used to work for one of those fucking armpits of healthcare before I realized what the fuck was actually happening and got the hell out of there after a crisis of conscience.

    But I wouldn't remotely be shocked if there were some under-table corp agreements that I wasn't privy to in my roles related to those lists that would've passed that with zero problem to feds, even including non-opiate things.

    The entire "independent medical review" industry is so fucked up. I gave some input to a ProPublica journalist about the bullshit I witnessed. It will take at least a decade to feel as if the scar on my conscience from having worked there at all is at least no longer oozing, but still very present.

    The whole org structures around making sure people think of it in terms of "benefit to organizations", and not "how this fucks up people's lives".

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