The D.E.A (Drug Enforcement Agency) sets caps on the amounts of schedule 1 and 2 drugs that manufacturers can legally produce each year. I was curious to see how the caps had changed over time and it was relatively simple to discover via the Federal Register. Considering all the lawsuits now targeting pharmaceutical manufacturers like Purdue, Johnson & Johnson, Allergen and Teva, I wonder if the D.E.A could also be considered an actor in the current opioid epidemic.
…final aggregate production quotas for the following controlled substances, expressed in grams of anhydrous acid or base, be established as follows:
(Not sure what 'conversion' means in this sense, but I think it has to do with converting one substance to another, i.e. one drug could be converted into another.)
2001https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/10/15/01-25761/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2001
2002https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/09/20/02-23876/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2002
2003https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/09/30/03-24653/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2003
2004https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/11/16/04-25340/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2004
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2005https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2005/11/09/05-22287/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2005
2006https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/19/E6-17524/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2006
2007https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/08/24/E7-16730/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2007
2008https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/12/E8-26798/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2008
2009https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/10/21/E9-25274/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2009
2010https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/09/14/2010-22785/controlled-substances-final-revised-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2010
2011https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/12/09/2011-31621/controlled-substances-final-adjusted-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2011
2012https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/09/10/2012-22128/controlled-substances-final-adjusted-aggregate-production-quotas-for-2012
2013https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/08/07/2013-19046/final-adjusted-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and
2014https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/08/25/2014-20137/final-adjusted-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and
2015https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/09/16/2015-23199/final-adjusted-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and
2016https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/25/2016-25696/final-adjusted-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and
2017https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/05/2016-23988/established-aggregate-production-quotas-for-schedule-i-and-ii-controlled-substances-and-assessment
