Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

by Michael Easter

And now the United States is facing a new drug problem, similar to Captagon in Iraq. After the government relaxed regulations around telemedicine prescriptions during the pandemic, questionable online prescribers popped up, and use of the stimulant Adderall surged. Prescriptions have tripled since 2009, and today one in eight Americans is using the drug. Some of these are warranted, but many aren’t. The DEA worries we’re now headed into a new chapter of drug addiction. To supply the demand for pills, fake prescription pills are pouring in from Mexico. And they’re dangerous. In 2022, the DEA seized fifty million fake pills tainted with fentanyl. We, too, have billions of pills circulating.