pharmaceutical diversion can be created if dea registrants would fulfill their on li gagbligatio. each dea registrant is a link. each registrant, manufacturers, whole wholesalers, distributors, pharmacies have a critical role to play in keeping the chain closed two. major schemes have emerged to divert millions of dosages of powerful addictive drugs. the first one a few years back was the internet pharmacy scheme. you could go online. and purchase pretty much any schedule 3, 4, 5. hydrocodone, it came out of the distribution chain. and no one fulfilled their obligations to the chain. you had distributors weren't doing due diligence on pharmacies ordering huge amounts of hydrocodone. pharmacists weren't inspecting, they were issued for legitimate purpose. and in the use of traditional practice. doctors were doing the same thing. they were prescribing without a legitimate reason for prescribing. there was no medical determination made. but because of law enforcement's focus on that problem and then congress coming in and passing the ryan-hait act, we basically shut down that system.