[HN Gopher] The FDA has officially declared a shortage of Adderall
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       The FDA has officially declared a shortage of Adderall
        
       Author : TurkishPoptart
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-10-14 20:25 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | opportune wrote:
       | It's affecting me pretty bad.
       | 
       | There are a few root causes: telemedicine rapidly increasing
       | prescriptions, the mentioned Teva production issues. But one of
       | the main problems is that the DEA tries to project the amount of
       | adderall that's allowed to be made/imported per year, which makes
       | it so companies can't quickly scale up production or hold
       | inventories to smooth over supply issues.
       | 
       | IMO, the DEA should not have any input whatsoever in how much of
       | a medicine can be produced or imported per year. Why should
       | people who need medicine suffer just in case someone else might
       | abuse it?
       | 
       | It's hard enough as it is to manage these prescriptions because
       | of them being controlled substances. Now it's 10x harder because
       | I have to play middle man between pharmacy and physician (if they
       | only have 15mg XR in stock I can't just get that filled to
       | replace my 15mg IR without resending a prescription - by the time
       | my physician sends something over they might be out of stock of
       | that dose already) _and_ pound pavement to find pharmacies with
       | stock at all. Plus you have to deal with all the pharmacy staff
       | that's pissed at all the other people in the same boat calling in
       | to try to get their prescriptions filled, on top of the regular
       | baseline judgment against people with controlled substance
       | prescriptions
        
         | CPLX wrote:
         | > Why should people who need medicine suffer just in case
         | someone else might abuse it?
         | 
         | This, in direct literal terms, was the argument made in favor
         | of OxyContin.
        
       | whateveracct wrote:
       | There was a shortage about a decade ago, right? I remember
       | because my partner had ADHD and had trouble getting adderall. I
       | remember it was definitely a rough time, even after getting it
       | back. Getting re-acclimated was not easy - the break definitely
       | made the unpleasant parts of being on adderall 7 days a week
       | apparent.
       | 
       | They've long since stopped taking medication - but that was after
       | we both decided the software industry is, for lack of a better
       | word, stupid and de-prioritized it generally. We still make good
       | money off it, but we do a worse job and have more free time for
       | what matters in life. Thank goodness for remote work :)
        
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