As a prescription drug shortage continues to impact patients from coast to coast, the federal government needs to step in and ensure that residents have access to their vital medications, Joseph Vicari, Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners, said in a letter today.
Vicari, who serves as the liaison to the Ocean County Office of Senior Services, penned a letter to Senators Robert Menendez and Cory Booker asking them to “do everything they can” to end the pharmaceutical shortages.
“How can the strongest economy on earth be facing a shortage of these vital pharmaceuticals? It is well past time that the United States becomes self-sufficient and capable of producing all of the drugs needed by our aging population,” Vicari said in the letter.
Vicari said the shortages are especially harmful to Ocean County’s large senior citizen population.
“Ocean County is home to one of the largest concentrations of senior citizens in the entire nation. These older adults are facing a crisis – the continuing and growing shortage of critical prescription medications,” Vicari said in the letter. “Doctors report that they are reducing dosages of these life-saving drugs in an effort to treat as many patients as possible. Across the country, hospitals are delaying or even cancelling needed surgeries only because the necessary drugs are not available. Our seniors are looking for answers, and so am I.”
Letters were also sent to Congressmen Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew.
“I encourage you to do everything you can to help rectify this ongoing crisis. Access to medical care and needed medicine is a basic human right,” Vicari said. “Please help us ensure that our seniors – and younger families, too – do not have to worry about their health simply because a necessary prescription is not available.”
Published reports said the shortages are impacting life-saving medicines including powerful drugs used in cancer treatments.
White House Staffers Call Call On Biden to Address White House Cocaine Shortage
The discovery of a bag of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House last month cast a bad light on the Biden administration, forcing the President to limit the supply of Cocaine on the WH premises, a move that is drawing the ire of WH staffers who say they are not accustomed to working long hours without the fringe benefit of snorting cocaine while on the job.
WH staffers are now threatening to quit their jobs unless the President addresses the WH cocaine shortage immediately.
“It’s not like we’re making a ton of money working here,” said a WH staffer, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity on Tuesday, “the least the President can do is to give us back our cocaine supply!”
“I mean, if Hunter Biden is allowed to smoke cocaine to his heart’s desire,” the staffer added, “why can’t we have our fair share of cocaine?!”
However, the President reassured a group of WH staffers last week that, with the continuous flow of Mexican drug cartels streaming through the southern border, the WH cocaine coffers “will be replenished in no time!”
“As soon as the negative news coverage of the West Wing cocaine debacle dissipates,” the President told his staffers, “and as soon as I can obtain a fresh truckload of cocaine from the drug cartel migrants who are crossing our border, I’ll have those WH coffers filled to the brim with premium cocaine in no time!”
“And let me make myself perfectly clear,” the President told the staffers, “I don’t treat you guys any differently than I treat my own son. If Hunter is snorting the good stuff, you’ll be snorting it too – to your heart’s desire – right here in the good ol’ White House!”
We need to boycott these drugs that’s killing people from left to right
Government cant solve the problem. They are the problem.