Adderall Backorder (Page 32)

I take generic Adderall 20 mg for narcolepsy and there is not one local pharmacy that has it in stock. I have never had this problem before. The pharmacies are saying that it's on backorder from the manufacturer. Is anyone else having problems getting their scripts filled?

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Re: CW (# 620)

Oh Sorry CW I was talking to the lady in Massachusetts.

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lol my bad. see no meds..i cant tell whos talking to me or if anyone is lol

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Re: CW (# 620)

Depending on your insurance. It might be that your insurance will only pay for the lower costs generics. If the pharmacy has a lower cost generics, The pharmacist has to use it. If they are out of the lower cost generic. Then the pharmacist can fill your prescription with a more expensive generic.

Having your doctor write the name of the manufacturer is the only way around it. But, if the pharmacy is out of the generic from that manufacturer. You cannot get it filled with another generic without your doctors authorization.

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Re: Maggie (# 617)

I keep getting the white ones, which don't seem as effective

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I am in Idaho and can't get my usual Orange adderall 20mg. I have tried for 2 weeks. It is not insurance again not insurance. I ended up at a mom and pop shop that had them. Got home and they were yellow with MP on it. They are freaking crap. I would go as far to say fake. Something is up.

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Re: Joey (# 625)

Fillers and binders vary between manufacturers. Fillers and binders can affect how a medication is absorbed. The actual amount of active ingredients in a generic can vary. For example, if a generic says it contains 10 mg active ingredients. I can actually contain 8 mg-12 mg active ingredients. When a Brand says it contains 10 mg active ingredients. It contains 10 mg active ingredient.

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Yes from Denver. I talked to a few different pharmacies today and the takeaways are that the 20mg are on back order at most places and have been for weeks. One pharmacist said that as a result now the 10mg are running low so she didn’t recommend i go get a new script for 10s; go for the 30s. (My ‘script is for two and a half 20 mg/day, total of 50 mg/day) I did find one Walmart pharmacy today that had 20s in stock, I’m picking up on Monday.

I used to live in Miami, and the pharmacies there couldn’t keep adderall in stock any given month but January was always a super drought. In 2014, it was out of stock everywhere from mid-December until Jan. 25 due to a nationwide shortage.

Every month when I needed a refill, I’d have to call over 10 locations to find one that had it in stock. One month it took 28 calls. Here’s what I learned: pharmacies by universities tend to carry a larger stock. Also pharmacies in super fancy rich neighborhoods where people aren’t used to being inconvenienced always had it in stock. Start your search there.

Good luck!

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Re: SW (# 627)

Each year the DEA decides how much active ingredients of Schedule II medications manufacturers will be given. This amount was reduced by 25%for 2017. It has also been reduced again by 20% for 2018.

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Re: SW (# 627)

Also in Denver. Just started 20mg a couple months ago -- was falling asleep in meetings (and I do get enough sleep at night). The med has helped, but I can hardly find it now. Had to try two pharmacies last month. This time it took three. Each pharmacist had the same "nationwide" backorder story so I don't doubt the cause. (BTW, my bottle says manufacturer is Aurabindo.) I'm wondering what happens next month when the 10s, 20s and 30s are all on backorder. I was also told to ask doc for different dose pills that could be chopped or doubled to get proper dose. Sounds like that may be a challenge, too. Since my doc and I are still trying things, maybe I'll see how he feels about Provigil, a med that I used to take a couple years ago. Never had issues getting that script filled.

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Shortages in Seattle too. I just checked the FDA’s page and apparently all short-acting Adderalls have been discontinued.

What the f***?!

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Re: Chelsea (# 630)

Can you post a link? I just looked and I don’t see it on the list at all. I just filled 10 mgs two days ago, but they are the crappy Mylan that work about half as well as the Tevas I was getting. If they’re all gone I need to know before next week so I can try something else. Anyone try provigil (sp)? I was not at all impressed with it, but it might be a good alternative for people who need it for narcolepsy.

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Re: BriGuy (# 629)

When there was an IR shortage in 2011 all strength were short because we were all doing what you suggested. I tried the XRs but they didn’t work for me at all.

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Re: Chelsea (# 630)

I saw that a few years ago and panicked, but someone explained that it was only for a specific company.

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Re: K (# 633)

Yeah I don’t see it at all now. This summer there was a discontinuation of one brand, but I haven’t had a problem since Sept or October. Except that I keep getting half strong Mylans.

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Yes,,here in Dallas. Possibly could be a month! Found at other pharmacy. This happened last month, also.

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Re: JB (# 635)

Where in Dallas could you find it? Checked cvs Walgreens Walmart etc... Thanks!

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Re: Chelsea (# 630)

I'm in Bellevue near Seattle, can you link me to this FDA article?! All short acting adderall has been discontinued?! What?! If that's true then that is.... BAD. I know adderall has a potential for abuse and is abused by people who don't get perscribed it.... but dear god.... there are people who actually need this.

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Re: John (# 637)

I hate to be the bearer of bad news.....I have been an advocate and patient of C-II Adderall instant release from 1997 until 2014. ADHD combined type. (me) I have been on a C-II stimulant since June 28, 1994. Currently taking generic dextroamphetamine 10 mg x 2 tabs daily. The topic of this thread is about mixed amphetamines salts, once patented as Adderall 1993 to 2001 by Richwood Pharma of Kentucky then by Shire Richwood, due to merger, until, the generic was made available around the year 2006/2007 by Barr Labs, once in 7 different dose sizes of I/R tabs. Then, came ShireUS, for a little while with their brand name Adderall XR only.

Another merger/buyout by Teva of Israel, in December of 2008. (for the generic version of Brand name Adderall, still available as "brand" (Duramed Div of Teva) then also by Barr Labs division of Teva of Sellersville PA USA. Now the bad news:

I will try to not write a book but my source I will release. The "Adderall shortages and price gouging and product shortages, (severe in late 2011, thru 2012) have returned...for some time now, but, the "quality has been all over the place" NOT GOOD. Why?

Teva of Israel worldwide headquarters expects to lay off 14,000 employees worldwide, and "job cuts" in USA, by Teva, estimated as high as 2,000 more employees from press release's beginning back to Nov 17 2017, [source: fiercepharma]. Teva's CEO and President of NorthAmerica Generics (two people) have resigned, will leave during 1st quarter of 2018. Fitch (int'l credit rating agency) has downgraded TEVA to Junk status rating, due to Feb 08, 2017 release of Teva losing 17.6 BILLION US dollars,
operating loss for calendar year 2017. "it will get worse before it gets better".

Kroger (a Fortune 500 US food chain) is suing TEVA, MYLAN, ENDO, in generic drugs price fixing litigation, to artificially inflate prices. Also TEVA has been thru merger madness, bought Allergan Pharma for 40.5 BILLION, and, they grew way too fast! Dec 2016. (Allergan Generics unit technically).

CSO Tom Hayden also departs TEVA. Next source BLOOMBERG states the majority of USA states of US are in civil litigation, (started out with Connecticut, Dec 2016, but, now over 100 USA cities and counties, including the majority of all USA individual state Attorney Generals are in a multi pharmaceutical legal case to sue TEVA, + MYLAN + SANDOZ on 15 drugs "suspicious of price hikes" and the Dept of Justice Washington DC is watching closely if they will make a Federal case as well again Big Pharma!

I have read this excellent harm reduction forum for "years" and especially the past 12 months of posters from post #140 to #151, and, the frustration is very real about the alleged quality of generic Adderall either Instant release or especially 30 mg XR generic to any size of generic XR the bioavailability + the bioequivalence (the latter is indeed enforced by FDA 80 to 120% rule...but, I gave up on Adderall Instant Release by ANY MFG including CORE Pharma, TEVA, Wilshire, the list goes on.... due to inconsistency in my medications, "not working as each tablet should". "The only constant about life is change" I do not like that!

I switched to generic DextroStat, which we all know ShireUS and Teva no longer manufactures since the year 2009, but, several other generic mfg in USA make a generic pure dextroamphetamine sulfate Instant release.....I am not a shill, I use a particular St Louis Mo mfg who makes generic versions of Dexedrine Sulfate. but the topic of this thread is on Adderall I/R and or Adderall XR generic!

I, like many here, "was extremely frustrated" from late 2011 until 2014 when I got worn out of product shortages, or price hikes, to my insurance company dropping Adderall (both version I/R and X/R in year 2014. It also got too expensive cash out of pocket etc etc. WTF I have tried at least 1/2 dozen different generic mfg of Adderall original formula instant release and for a long time brand later generic Barr 10 mg was AOK from 1997 forward, but, again I gave up in 2014.

I am a aging male party who remembers the days of original Rexal Pharma NY who discovered, "Obetrol" a brand name from 1964 until 1994 when they sold their patent to Richwood Pharma of Kentucky! 1993, and the product was good for many many years! (1964 until late 2011) but I have now lost all of my confidence IMHO on any version of Adderall. Never taken "Adderall XR" only immediate release Adderall but, IDK of the outcome, February of 2018, but it does not look good for any generic Adderall, but, it is only just my 2 cents worth, I hope this mess gets straightened out for all ages of adults and children who need an ethical pharmaceutical company to return to making consistent reliable product like it used to be for so many years, in the past!

If I could turn the clock back now to the year 1994, I am depressed this year, so I question my own judgement, about my quest for these stimulants that helped me for so very long, but as I age out, (I am over 60 years old) I still take a lower dose of C-II stimulant, but, I do not know how to function, without at least some help with my mental impairments.

Is any Adderall Instant release still made that is reliable? I do not have that answer.......all I have is the data I print!!! What about generic Adderall XR?, I do not have the answer for that either, I do not know if any Brand Name of either is still made or not, if it is... it would be very expensive, as, the patent likely has long expired? It appears a combo of greed + demonizing this drug, which it has been abused by a few bad apples. and, the entire ADHD amphetamine + dextroamphetamine market has changed radically in the past 6 to 8 years! I do believe in the DX of ADHD but I do have my doubts about using this med, now, as I have been on C-II stimulants pushing 24 years now in a row! "one day at a time" is my motto for now!

I have taken a break over the past 23 .5 years but never gone longer than 15 days in a row without either Ritalin, Adderall or Dexedrine, I don't know how to function and, without my ADHD meds, so I continue with my USA Psychiatrist, now the same MD since January of 1999! I am not trying to cause a Hurricane warning, it is just I have researched this information I just typed up (for over 5 days long)!

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Yes I am having the same issue except my pharmacy just deletes the script and doesn't tell anyone. I have been dealing with this since last Thursday. I even went up there and they said they never got it and my doctor says she got a voicemail notification that they received it.

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Re: Ridgerunner007 (# 638)

Thank you for your comment. I did not know about this but im glad I know now. I was extremely confused why the generic adderall IR market has been SO inconsistent. I got diagnosed two years ago and last June I stopped being able to get the Corepharma generic that worked so well for me. Ever since then, I've tried the other generics and they all have varying and ineffective results. I just got a script for branded adderall im filling today. Hope that will work.

Honestly.... I understand how much we really need this medication to function. Before being perscribed adderall, I remember I would constantly have this "brain fog". The difference is night and day.... going back is extremely difficult. Honestly, if I NEEDED this medication to function... I would be willing to pay some out of pocket even if it were expensive.

I'm not sure if you've tried Vyvanse yet. I know its expensive, I'm not sure if your insurance covers it. My doctor gave me a discount coupon for Vyvanse that cuts my Copay for it from $50 down to $15. Vyvanse is a lot "smoother" you might not feel its effects at times like adderall, but it is working. I personally don't like it very much since it doesn't give me a "kick" of energy and motivational boost.

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