A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    19·
    4 months ago

    The article says it’s a national problem. It’s worse than that. Pharmacies in Australia have a huge shortage of Vyvanse right now because it’s imported from the US.

    • sramder@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      Brand name Vyvanse hasn’t been especially hard for me to get for the last few years. (Here in the US)

      But apparently everything else has been a shit-show for the last 2 years. I imagine it will get worse as people are forced to consider alternative medicine choices. Our DEA isn’t known for smart choices ;-)

      Good luck, I’m afraid you’ll soon need it.

  • sramder@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 months ago

    It’s really nice to finally get some facts and details in this whole mess. I’ve seen so many obsequious comments over the last two years; generally conspiratorially linking the amphetamine shortages to the opioid settlement, DEA quotas, undersupply… I had pretty much resigned myself to never getting a straight answer, and spending a lot more time in pharmacies full of potential plague-rats.

    At least I got the explanation :-)

  • Ioughttamow@kbin.social
    12·
    4 months ago

    I want to get on medication for the first time, this does not bode well for that. I should at least restart therapy though

    • nutsack@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      you probably don’t need to hear this from a random dingus on the internet, but long term use of these meds can do permanent damage to your body’s ability to experience happiness. in my opinion they should be a last resort and ideally a short term learning experience only.

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world
    41·
    4 months ago

    Considering adderall without insurance is the same price or more expensive than street meth, oh boy. I’m glad I quit that stuff years ago. Get ready for meth use to start rising like fentanyl did.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    4 months ago

    Now that article from a few weeks ago about so many Americans going to get Mexican adderall (an equivalent dose of Methamphetamine) makes so much sense.

    (No its not marketed as such, they just say it’s generic adderall)