Abusing sleeping pills is a great way to make it very difficult for people who actually need sleeping pills to not be able to get sleeping pills. This applies equally to many other medications too, including the freshly politically demonized effective pain relievers at the heart of the latest media driven moral panic. It only takes a few fools to ruin something for the responsible majority.
How do you know? Do you work in a pain clinic? Are you a doctor who has worked with these patients for decades, or a researcher in the field? Or are you just repeating talking points from the latest media hysteria and politically driven moral panic?
i don't think this is true. healthcare has a litany of issues in america but i don't think it's common to pull controlled substances from the market because of black market abuse. am i wrong here?
"hard to get" is overselling it a little. Maybe hard to get in very large quantities. Where I am, I can get up to 7.5 grams per month with zero issues. Not enough to make meth, enough for the maximum dose every day of every month.