It is far worse in my country (Greece). I am unemployed, and thus uninsured; this means that my psychiatrist cannot prescribe my medicine (Concerta in my case, a slow-acting version of Ritalin) because they are just so tightly controlled. Pseudoephedrine is similar.

We the uninsured need to procure it from a public mental hospital, but the appointments are months away, so I cannot get any. So this medicine, which my psychiatrist considers essential, is just... denied to me; I have not taken it in 8 months, resulting in my barely being able to function, much less find the employment that would make me, you know, insured.