Correct me if I am wrong here please. I work in this field but not in a way where I would know these answers. When these pharmaceutical companies get their quota of API it's approved by the DEA correct? All of this is regulated strictly. The government knows exactly how much API these companies are asking for and getting. How is it they get to play dumb in these sort cases? I understand the companies should pay the fines and such but it's all approved by the government. Or am I wildly off base here?
EDIT: API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient AKA your morphine sulfate, oxycodone hydrochloride, etc
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Correct me if I am wrong here please. I work in this field but not in a way where I would know these answers. When these pharmaceutical companies get their quota of API it's approved by the DEA correct? All of this is regulated strictly. The government knows exactly how much API these companies are asking for and getting. How is it they get to play dumb in these sort cases? I understand the companies should pay the fines and such but it's all approved by the government. Or am I wildly off base here?
EDIT: API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient AKA your morphine sulfate, oxycodone hydrochloride, etc