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The antibiotics example is one type where I admit some kind of regulation (aside from competency) might be in order. I.e., where tragedy of the commons-type scenarios arise.

Still, even in that case, I think you might be better off regulating at the point of sale by pharmacists, kind of akin to pseudoephedrine. I also think situation isn't quite as clear cut as it seems on the surface, in that currently antibiotics are overprescribed anyway, suggesting that our current regulatory regime isn't really working in those cases well either. In any event, my sense of the antibiotics literature is that a, if not the, major contributor to environmental antibiotic resistance is agricultural in nature.