FAA is coming after pilots that lie on  

I'm 100% civilian, I'm not lying on any form. But there's a huge mental health crisis in this country to the point that there are shortages of medication. Mental health awareness has come a long way and the FAA is still using the same list of approved medications from 20 years ago. It's understanding of medication and the needs of Americans is severely outdated. Pilots who legit need medication for depression have had to lie because the FAA has been too lazy to adopt any self awareness of the needs of normal people. That's what I'm angry about. The article references these problems being brought to their attention over a decade ago and they never did anything. They could have updated their understanding of mental health and medication effects or created a more efficient system than one that required them to lie. I've had students who took a medication once, ten years prior not be able to get their medical. If you've taken anything you're guilty until proven innocent. The system has always been broken because they never bothered to try anything except a fat rubber stamp that says "can't fly" . I'm not condoning lying, but the FAA ignored the problem and chose to do nothing, and that's what irks me. More Americans than ever are on medication and the FAA pretends like pilots are magically immune because anything else would require them to do actual work.