Dissatisfaction with the shortage of ADHD medications
For more than a year, doctors and patients have struggled to obtain drugs to treat ADHD. Pharmacies in southeastern Wisconsin are also having to adapt.
milwaukee – For more than a year, doctors and patients have struggled to obtain treatments. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – better known as ADHD.. Pharmacies in southeastern Wisconsin are also having to adapt.
If you are prescribed medication, you may not think twice about whether or not you can have it filled at the pharmacy. However, the people living together ADHD We don’t have that luxury.
of F.D.A. has announced that there will be a national shortage of Adderall in October 2022. Adderall is one of the medications used to treat people with the following symptoms: ADHD.
“For kids, it helps them focus on things like school, and it really makes a difference,” says John Phillips of Sage Specialty Pharmacy.
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Phillips said it’s still hard to find. Any ADHD medicine.
“Generic Adderall, Vyvanse, Focalin,” Phillips said. “Every week I say I still can’t get information from anyone.”
The question is, why?
FOX6’s Jason Calvi asked the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services while in Washington, D.C.
“There’s something missing here,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said. “The industry is committed to getting from point A to point Z without creating a crisis.”
of F.D.A. It blames supply chain issues and an increase in prescriptions during the pandemic.
“The demand exists for those drugs,” Becerra said.
It is unclear when the shortage will be resolved, but…
“We are always trying to stay on top of the situation and communicate as much as possible with patients who are using these medications,” Phillips said.
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The National Association of Community Pharmacists said about 87% of pharmacies are reporting drug shortages. ADHD This year’s medicine.
