Adderall Backorder (Page 88)

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: tim (# 1738)

Agreed. It's a fear-mongering tactic. Basic essential information is routinely withheld, especially for the most vulnerable & suffering patients.
JAMA , December 2011 Journal issue is very helpful and thorough. Study of N= 500,000 cases. Routinely dismissed by MD's,,, without ever reading the article from a reputable Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Re: Stac (# 1734)

Agreed. It's humiliation and degradation. Despicable.

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Re: bp01 (# 1732)

Thanks again for this reality -based post.

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Re: Dr Gary K (# 1743)

You're welcome! I'm just trying to add some optimism in there. Especially right now when everyone is feeling so desperate.

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Re: JR (# 1149)

Hello. What about now? Is it still going out? I live in Middleburg, Florida just outside Jacksonville, Florida & have been waiting in agony since Tuesday morning for 60 of the 20mg ir’s & they said Thursday they would have them. Then on Thursday said they did not know when they would have them. It is Friday afternoon & still no word, should I call the pharmacy every day? It is a small mom & pop’s style place & I just do not want to make them mad, my doctor refuses to send script to anywhere else or change it in any way either. It is just so terribly hard to function to do anything but worry which give’s me terrible anxiety. I have been on them for many year’s now & before or without them my life was a total s*** show. Thank you so much.

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Re: bp01 (# 1634)

Which one i’m in your area but need 20mg’s.

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Re: Rcma (# 1644)

Maybe the FDA should allocate amphetamines in accordance with the estimated amount that doctors need to treat their patients, rather than continually reducing the allocation every damn year (in direct contradiction of market needs and the judgment of medical professionals).

Follow the money--almost every ADHD med is off patent or due to go generic soon. The one or two potential new meds are "me too" drugs (such as the upcoming transdermal amphetamine patch)and will not be profitable. Therefore, stimulants are going out of favor, long-term successfully treated ADHD patients be damned:

The outcome, to the despair of ADHD patients, is as follows:

1. Drive ADHD patients crazy with shortages and subpar generics (2022)
2. FDA continues decreasing amphetamine allocation even more the following year (2023).

Then, the multi-pronged gaslighting begins:

3. Spin a "for your safety"/drug panic narrative around amphetamine/methylphenidate diversion and abuse as the initial reason for decreasing the amount of amphetamines allocated...
4. Start disseminating anti-ADHD med studies in med journals that will percolate into layman health media.
5. The non-ADHD public is now fully anti-stimulant treatment. Those with ADHD who once were successfully treated with stimulants have, in recent years, seen their medications stop working/had bad side effects/go months unable to fill their script while friends and relatives tell them how awful the meds are. They are at their wits' end!
6. Begin hyping up PharmaCoX's new non-stimulant med for ADHD, first in med journals (" How to Lie With Statistics" is a very helpful book), then in the mainstream media.
7. Anticipate responses and counterarguments if priming and placebo affect fails: "complaints about side effects or inferiority to initial stimulant treatment may be indicative of preference for addictive substances or post-acute stimulant withdrawal respectively and should not be taken as a sign that treatment with $NewDrug should be discontinued. In fact, remind patient that during 2023, in the last days of stimulant treatment prior to starting $NewDrug, he mentioned that it felt as if GenericStimY and GenericStimZ had little active ingredient in it. That itself proves that his tolerance was increasing, a sign of addiction! Or, alternately, it illustrates a dangerous side effect of stimulants: paranoia, in this case about his medical treatment. Good thing he can be treated with nonstim $NewDrug!

8. Alternately, note that the DEA once again upped the allocation of hallucinogens and marijuana. Steps 1-6 are used while erroneously claiming that new marijuana strain X or designer psychedelic Y treats ADHD miraculously. Since these drugs have very noticeable CNS effects (albeit very unpleasant for some people, particularly a subset of those with ADHD),
there will always be a large pool of (mostly young) prospective "patients" eager for whatever diagnosis enables them to get their hands on these reality-warping pharmaceuticals. Remember, yesterday's drug menace is today's choice prescription/cash cow, and vice versa (as for those of us who were formerly able to have good jobs/relationships/lives thanks to stimulants easing our life-wrecking ADHD symptoms, guess we've landed on the wrong side of medical history, and we'll be told that we're liars, stimulants never worked/are dangerous/we're uninformed, go eat edibles!)

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Re: stephen e (# 1669)

Don't apologize, you have every right to share your experience.

The person who dismissed your post by saying "life isn't fair" or something of the sort doesn't seem to grasp that "life" didn't decide to give any of us progressively sub-par medication. People in power did. And you can bet that they aren't suffering the same indignities.

I wonder if the "Life's not fair so shut up" posters think that those in power are going to give them a gold star for telling the uppity peasants to shut up and enjoy the ongoing decline in quality of product/fairness/level of empathy among humans, whatever? Or do they really believe that these things just happen coincidentally, as if there are no humans behind the curtain making the decisions that result in exponentially increased chaos and decrease in health and quality of life?

FTR, if anyone reading has $800 a month to spend on Dexedrine Spansules, they are an excellent medication. The formula was patented in 1976, before the Hatch-Waxman Act, HMOs, near total regulatory capture, and other accoutrements of clown world we see today. Insurance will not cover it (of course not) and most pharmacies won't order it unless you lucked out and have found a gem you've used for years. And even then, it's not guaranteed every month.

They also have one third the inactive ingredients of other XR amphetamine products as well as being the most aesthetically pleasing medication I have ever seen! I was born too late, I tell you. The comparison between a Spansule and an Adderall XR is akin to comparing a 1983 Jaguar XJ6 with any of the ugly lookalike luxury sedans on the road today, or hearing music played by talented musicians decades ago as opposed to the auto-tuned monosyllabic sonic torture that infests every store, restaurant, and coffeehouse these days.

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Re: Bill (# 1671)

Yes!

God forbid someone wants a decent quality of life, or even anything more than 400 square feet of living space and a screen to stare at 24/7! "Entitled".

Sadly, this sort of authoritarian-loving, lockstep attitude is all the rage among the screenster kiddies. Yet they never wonder why, if they're so satisfied, they are always jumping down people's throats (albeit behind a screen) and refusing the doctrine of "live and let live"?

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THIS thread is turning into a parade of the disgruntled looney tunes conspiracy theories brigade. Keep talking like paranoid psychotics folks and you'll really do us all in. When "they" use your rantings as proof that their hypothesis --amphetamines make people paranoid and crazy -- is fact.

Oh sure btw....as of all doctors are responsible professionals with amphetamines, opioids, SSRIs, benzos, Statins, biologics, antibiotics ... Laughing my ass off on that one.... Welcome to the industrial medical complex...no country pops more Rx pills per Capita. Responsible?

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Re: Kayla (# 1745)

Hey Kayla, I'm in Jax too. Try cvs. I know for sure that the one on the corner of blanding Blvd & Collins had some. But if you have BCBS thru the marketplace they won't fill it.

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So how's everyone's else search going? I'm coming up on one week un-medicated.

I can't stay awake longer than 2-3 hours.

I have undergrad semester starting back this week.

And I cut my finger so badly on Friday-evening with an x-acto knife, it's now wrapped in a stint.

I tried my local hosp and they said they couldn't even order adderall.

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Re: bp01 (# 1752)

im on my first week. i have some pills that expired 2 years ago that i didn't want to take. But it's left me depressed and tired like I've never been before. can't even wash my face. My pharmacy has no supply.

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Re: bp01 (# 1752)

I'll update about the Philadelphia area when I go try to fill tomorrow

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Re: Seankay (# 1753)

I have left over 10 mg pills from 2011. And 30 mg XR pills from 2007 that I am taking to get through the shortage with. Still better than current brands like Aurobindo, and Sun LOL.

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Re: bp01 (# 1752)

Go to the school shrink and see about getting something else prescribed. Some people have said they can still get Adderall XR. If your school is big enough to have it's own pharmacy, see if you can get a shrink to call them and see what if any ADHD meds they can get. They might not disclose that to a student.
Modafinil might be a temp solution to help stay awake. But might need adhd med with it for all symptoms. Haven't tried it yet myself.

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On the 12th it will be one month since I was supposed to get my refill that I never was able to get. I'm in Colorado Springs and every other pharmacy also still has it on back order. I'm really struggling bad it's very hard to do my simple tasks.

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The latest news reporting once again fails to zero in on the FDA and DEA and the American Medical and Psychiatric Associations.... and once again blames covid, increased Demand, Telehealth Etc. Passing the buck much? Blaming the patients? Mismanagement is NOT the patients' issue.... Seems like the DEA and industry wholesalers have attention deficit disorder cuz it's their responsibility to manage supply and demand. Not the patients. Havoc

NBC News: Adderall shortage: Other ADHD drugs affected. When will it end?.
https:/­/­www.nbcnews.com/­health/­health-news/­adderall-shortage-adhd-drugs-affected-will-end-rcna66766

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Re: tim (# 1754)

So the Philadelphia area seems to still have good inventory for those seeking it, at least for my 30mg IR (Teva).

However I paid out of pocket for my 30mg XR as I wasn't able to find the generic at any of my three closest pharmacies... all three had the brand available, though.

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Re: tim (# 1759)

Glad you were able to get something. Thanks for the update!

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