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I have had two refills of Adderall 20 mg that was manufactured by Teva/barr (Teva) and it seems to have much less medication in each pill. Refills by another manufacturer work. This is ridiculous, and where do we report Teva and who can check each pill for amount for medication? I would gladly donate some of my worthless ones to the FDA?

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I'm NOT from TEVA. AGAIN- your issue is one of time related resistance or TOLERANCE to your medication. Even after weeks the strength weakens and is noticeable. One simply cannot expect the drug to work as well as when you started. I'm not saying that all batches of drugs are spot on identical. They may differ a small small amount. But all and all they are really alike. If you want to expect a distinct high like when you first started then stop completely for a least a year. STILL, you WILL NOT HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED.

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I want to know what other brand she uses in comparison to Teva's Adderall. Neither I nor my pharmacist can find another company that manufacturers it. I knew it was inferior before I finished my first bottle. I took their version of Vicoprofen for over a year, complaining that it didn't work-until I got one pill that knocked my socks off. I quit them 'cold turkey' and expected withdrawal symptoms, but I didn't even break a sweat. I noticed no difference at all. That's when I contacted the FDA, a total waste of time. Teva tested their own drug and declared to the FDA that it was just fine, hunky-dory, nothing wrong. Generic Cymbalta is a joke, no matter who makes it. It's so bad that even Walmart offered real Cymbalta to my niece as a preferred drugs. Doctors won't even allow her to take generic thyroid medication. At least Medicare is paying for this worthless crap, even though I have to pay for the drug policy, but that's a rant for another day.
The Adderall I took this morning isn't working, I just want to eat and lie in bed. All I care about is exposing this rip-off drug company and the FDA, which is a waste of taxpayer dollars, like most government agencies have become lately.

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I think Kim must be from Teva. There is no way you take their current formulation and not notice the previous formulation was 4x stronger. You don't go from effective to resistant overnight, but I did and my stepdaughter did. My stepdaughter had such a problem with ADHD behavior at school the school started giving her stars for each class to encourage good behavior. Her results were so-so until she went on medication. After that, for months she was getting five stars out of five at school 80% of her time there (4 days out of 5 she got five stars, the 5th day four). The new batch arrived and we both started it. I suddenly needed 3 or 4 times the dose and she, a seven year old, instantly went back to her baseline, pre-medication score at school of an average of 2 or 3 stars. We didn't tell her the medication was a new batch and we didn't tell the teacher who was scoring her until a few weeks later.

If anyone is currently getting different results then it is because their local pharmacy is still carrying the old stock. My child is going to be missing her education and I'm damned if I'm going to raise her dose because next thing Teva will multiply the active ingredient by 4 and my child will have a heart attack.

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THAT WAS TWELVE YEARS AGO..... Do you think you might have built some resistance to the drug by now? I TOO have taken them over 12 years. The tolerance is noticeable. Even after 1 year the tolerance builds up. The long acting 30 Mg. capsules have a time release mode in them. When you overlap the 12 h formulation with another you will get a larger build up. So do not think one is really that much better than another. It simply doesn't work that way. If you take 4 h tablets every 3 hours you might feel more energy for awhile. Eventually, the tolerance will again be an issue with ANY drug after years of use. Even doubling the dose will ONLY work for awhile to reduce that darned reduction of effectiveness.

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Is it possible that the hunger could be due to it being "that time of the month"? I usually don't get this hungry in general but the last week I have been insane with hunger and today I got my friend. Normally I don't get ome but every so often I will. I really hope that is what is causing the hunger bc no matter how much I eat I am still starving.

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Todd Curl wrote an interesting article, dated 09 June 2010, titled "Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs". This article mentions that shortly after Teva became the only manufacturer of Adderall in 2008, many medications were voluntarily recalled. Teva was using low quality precursor materials and lacked manufacturing oversight. Adderall was one of the recalled medications. At the time, it contained too much medication.

This is from another article that I read: The FDA requires that you get between 80% to 125% of the brand name drug activity from a generic medication, compared to the original drug. There is more variability added if you get your generic from different vendors, as one may pack 80% of “effective” drug and another one 120%, for example. Components other than active ingredients are not required to be identical and the formulation could potentially affect how the drug is delivered to your blood stream. Regarding the controls, the FDA admitted that some generics had not been evaluated, and even pulled one out from the market.

I know you can't believe everything you read on the internet, but I know when a generic drug is inferior.

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I asked my pharmacist to check for any other manufacturers. He searched his data base and told me that all Adderall was now being manufactured by Teva.

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There is little if ANY difference to Teva's brand of Adderall to any other. Your assumption is probably due to a placebo effect. I personally have taken them and others. The strength is literally the same. Some prefer a brand name over another. The issue of worthlessness is not applicable here. The similar brands are not inert, they are by law equivalent.

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12 years ago I was given Adderall 30 mg x2 a day and it worked great. I could focus, lost weight, kept it off, had energy, no mood swings, etc. In 2009 I unknowingly was switched to generic by Teva and for the past few years we have done IR, XR all different doses and tried Vyvanse but nothing seemed to work the same. I am actually starving most of the time within an hour of taking the generic (amphetamine salts) and have gained weight (over 10 lbs in less than a month) so my doctor finally agreed to put me back on brand name Adderall (after long fights with insurance). Today I picked up my new Rx and realized that although it says Adderall it looked quite similar to the generic one so after research and reading the paperwork I realized that it is still made by Teva. I took one to see how I would feel because I don't want any surprises at work tomorrow from the change and I am not sure if I can tell a difference or if it is all in my head. I am still hungry and tired. I am hoping it is all in my head and that even though it is made by Teva that fact that it is name brand instead of the salts it will work better. Does anyone know if I should expect the same feeling because it was the same manufacturer even though it is name brand vs. generic or will there be a difference because even though it is the same manufacturer the actual make up is different? I really feel like all of this stress was not worth it if they are keeping me with the same manufacturer and it has the same results. Someone please give me some good news... I really want to feel better, have energy, be able to focus and not be hungry all the time.

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I've written the FDA twice complaining about Teva generic medications. Both times, they allowed Teva to investigate. The FDA webpage states that generics must work as well as their brand name counterparts. Like most Federal Agencies, the FDA is not doing it's job. There should be a congressional investigation into the poor performance of the FDA and they should be forced to prove, by tests other than the manufacturer's tests, that these drugs work. Then they all should be fired when they can't do so.

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I was diagnosed with ADHD about a month ago, the first prescription I got was to try out Adderall to see if it was right for me. I got it at Target Pharmacy and it was CorePharma Brand. I started with 10mg IR and first broke them in half and took 5mg in the morning then 5mg in the afternoon. Subtle effects occurred obviously because of the low dosage, but it was very noticeable and I liked my productivity and focus. Then after a week of that I called my doctor and told her I was going to start taking the 10mg twice a day, and after she approved I saw a decent increase in focus and general effect. This was a good first experience and the CorePharma ones seemed to be doing the desired job, keeping me organized and focused on productivity in my daily life, a godsend!

I decided I wanted to try XR so that I wouldn't have to take it multiple times a day. My doctor okayed it and she prescribed 20mg XR once a day and also wrote one for 10mg IR for during the day if I needed to achieve more focus and increase the effect.

This time I went to my local Walgreens because they have better hours than Target. The XR and IR pills I got are both by Barr Brand, IR 10mg = Light blue oval "barr 975" XR orange capsule "Amphetamine Salts 20mg"

So my first day I take the 20mg XR at 8am and then 10mg IR around 12pm and another 5mg IR 2 hours later. I am very confused and disappointed by the effects. First of all this is close to double what I was taking when I started with the CorePharma brand. I work 10 hours days on average so I was counting on this to work, but I felt sort of foggy half way through the day. I was more awake than usual, however it wasn't that motivational, sharp focus, productive feeling you should get. I think the best way to describe it is feeling like a robotic zombie if that makes sense...

I can say for sure in my short time of using Adderall that there is definitely something wrong or missing in the current Barr brand/batch of Adderall, and not just in the IR but also the XR ones.

Sorry for the long message, I just want to be detailed about my experience and see if anyone else has felt this way about the current Barr brand Adderall. Its very frustrating for people like me who are counting on medication to work, especially when it did work your first month and then suddenly its ineffective.

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Same happened to me. At the last refill, suddenly I needed to take four times as much to get half the effect. What worries me is now we are taking so much more - what happens when Teva corrects the manufacturing defect also without telling us?

Anyone who doesn't test a quarter of a pill of any new prescription is risking their life.

Teva know about this because I have told them.

We need a lawyer.

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I agree, taken TEVA 20 mg ir for years, most refill from Rite Aid were useless!

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I have never had a problem with Teva/Barr's Adderall IR. all of the other generic products, especially core Pharma, seem profoundly weak in comparison

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The Teva brand is far superior to any other generic brand.

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You are so right maria, they are messing around with our lives,careers,future, success, happiness and most of all our temper when we are given placebo junk meds.my job is on the line now because its hard for me to focus and hurry around like a idiout and do the work of three people like the way this corporate america expects of us.without my job i cant pay my rent,bills,eat,pay medical insurance,ect. This is a serious matter.then of corse is the detox we must endure as we try to function to make it through the day.I am on two 30 mg generic football shaped adderall a day.when i get anything that dont work thesame im in trouble..

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I have taken Adderall IR for a long time and have noticed no change at all. I find it to be highly more efficacious than any other generic.

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Not helpful at all. I just got the same ones!!! Placebo,placebo,placebo. There is nothing in this medicine or round thing. Aurobindo Teva adderal is a joke!!!

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I'm prescribed 20mg IR tablets and there is definitely something wrong... I have absolutely no tolerance and have never established one within the years I've been prescribed. I just filled mine and took one and the effect was close to nothing. So I took another half and nothing happened. Then I took a whole one and then I could tell the medicine started working. I usually only take 3/4 of the 40mg per day prescribed regimen (Take one in the AM, then half about six hours later). So I had to take 2 and a half 20mg tablets? That's bulls***. That's double what I usually have to take. People should get quality medicine, especially when you pay 100 dollars for it. Mine are 20mg IR Teva tabs.

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I take the 20 XR of Barr Adderrall, and it is very inconsistent. Some days I feel like I can keep my attention span and get many things done. However, on most days, I don't feel anything and sit and stare at the wall like a damn zombie. I need to take the name brand, but Dr. wants to talk to me about it first. What is there to discuss? I need something that is going to work.

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