Shortages Of 116 Different Pharmaceutical Drugs In The United States

[WVDragonlady]

This brings home the fact that we(US) doesn't make anything anymore. We rely on other nations for our medications. Scary stuff

https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/rampant-drug-shor
Nationwide, more than 100 drugs are in short supply, including antibiotics, diuretics, opioids and heart failure medications, FDA data shows.

As of Jan. 11, 114 drugs were in shortage, according to the FDA’s database of current and resolved drug shortages, which is updated daily. The current tally is a continuation of shortage levels seen last year. In November 2021, the FDA reported 112 drug shortages.




Heres the link to the list
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/drugshortages/

 

[DrJenner]

Yes this is a huge problem.
During the height of the pandemic- summer of 2020 we were running out of a lot of sedating and paralytic medications.
It was awful.
Basically when you have someone on a vent with COVID ARDS you have to deeply sedate them and paralyze them in order to properly ventilate their lungs. Our body’s tendency to take deep breaths is actually harmful in ARDS as it can further injure the lungs. So you have to set the ventilator to achieve a low volume.

that being said, we had to come up with ways to do this without using our regular medications as they were in short supply. This meant instead of using an IV drip, we had to use bolus dosing of a different med that couldn’t be in an IV drip form- so the nurse was gowning up every hour (and sometimes more) to go into the room to push the medications needed into the IV. When you have 2 and 3 patients this is really difficult. I am sure some people didn’t get the meds they needed, or weren’t sedated deeply enough- the ramifications were huge. Can you imagine being paralyzed on a vent and not sedated? Some times one sedation med will work better than another- everyone’s bodies are different and metabolize drugs differently. But if we only have one drug available, you take your chances. Truly awful and definitely my worst nightmare.

 

[Caribou]

Fentanyl is in short supply, except when coming across the border. The Chinese manufacturers have their priority.

 

[backlash]

I got a notice from Amazon that one of my wife's Rx was in short supply and she may not get it.

 

[DrJenner]

Yes fentanyl is a common one we use for analgesia on vented patients as its effects on blood pressure and heart rate are less than dilaudid or morphine.

 

[Peanut]

Sounds like poison hemlock is needed, grows in every state (Conium maculatum). Just like morphine it can be deadly when administered improperly, just ask Socrates. On the plus side, it's not habit forming, non-addictive.

"Poison hemlock has been used as a medicine externally to treat herpes, erysipelas (also known as Ignis sacer, holy fire, and St. Anthony’s fire; a bacterial skin infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes Rosenbach) and breast tumors. The Greek and Arabian physicians used the plant to cure indolent tumors, swellings and pains in the joints. Poison hemlock was used in antiquity to wither testicles and to shrink breasts [126]. The juice of poison hemlock together with seeds of betony (Stachys officinalis (L.) Trevis. ex Briq.) and fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) mixed into wine were used for the treatment of the bite of a mad dog (rabies). The plant has been the last resort antidote for strychnine and other virulent poisons. Religious sects in the 1400s and 1500s used roasted roots to relieve pains of gout. From the 1760s onwards the plant was used as a cure for cancerous ulcers. Tinctures and extracts made from hemlock have been used as a sedative and an anodyne (analgesic). Its antispasmodic effects were used to treat tetanus, asthma, epilepsy, whooping cough, angina, chore and stomach pains [9,45,47,122,123,127]. In Finnish folk medicine, poison hemlock has been used as a powder, plaster and poultice to treat hardened glands, cramp and malignant wounds [128].

Dried leaf and juice of poison hemlock were part of the official London and Edinburgh pharmacopeias of 1864–1898. The last official recognition of the medical use of poison hemlock was in 1938 in the British Pharmaceutical Codex [111]. The reason for discontinuation appears to be the difficulty of manufacturing a medicine with even quality: different preparations varied in potency [86]. If poison hemlock is used internally it must be carefully administrated, as narcotic poisoning with paralysis and loss of speech may result from overdosage [9,47].

The coniine alkaloids could serve as a starting point for the synthesis of specific and less toxic spinal relaxants [111,121]. Bowman and Sangvi [111] noted that the hemlock alkaloids do not have a local anesthetic effect, or it is very weak. However, later research has found that coniine has a local anesthetic effect in mice and rats [122,123]."


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150177/

 

[joel]

They are out of one of my pills, will let me know when it comes in.