How You're Dealing With the Ongoing Adderall Shortage
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
There is a shortage of the ADHD medication Adderall that has been going on for about one year now, with no end in sight. Listeners who need the medication call in to talk about whether they've been able to source it lately, and those with unfilled prescriptions share how they (or their kids) are coping without it.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lair on WNYC. We're going to end for our last 15 minutes today with a call in |
| 0:15.6 | for people with ADHD who can't get your Adderall. That shortage is going on. It's not been in |
| 0:22.8 | the news very much. And the question is, what is life for you without Adderall? Let other |
| 0:29.2 | people know, how does it compare to when you're sufficiently medicated? How do you get through work |
| 0:34.5 | or school or life in general with all the tools you need to be successful and productive? Let other |
| 0:40.8 | people in on your world a little bit. Two, one, two, four, three, WNYC, two, one, two, four, three, |
| 0:48.9 | nine, six, nine, two, for people with ADHD or who are dependent on Adderall and can't get it |
| 0:56.8 | regularly because of the ongoing shortage, which has fallen out of the news, but it's still going |
| 1:01.9 | on. Call and let people know what this is like for you and how you cope. Two, one, two, four, |
| 1:08.0 | three, WNYC, you get a voice now to talk publicly if you're in that situation. Two, one, two, |
| 1:15.6 | four, three, three, nine, six, nine, two. And we're doing this because, in part, I personally know |
| 1:23.2 | somebody who couldn't get their Adderall prescription filled for the last month and just recently |
| 1:32.8 | got it. And then I started poking around and we found out that, yeah, this is a thing. It's not |
| 1:39.2 | just that one person I know. It's still a thing out there with difficulty getting Adderall |
| 1:45.4 | prescriptions filled. So, two, one, two, four, three, WNYC, two, one, two, four, three, nine, six, |
| 1:53.7 | nine, two. While you're waiting for your prescription refill to come in, do you find yourself changing |
| 1:59.3 | your daily routines, which might already be difficult to keep up with due to the nature of the |
| 2:05.2 | disorder in order to give yourself more time, let's say, to get tasks done. Maybe you've picked up |
| 2:11.3 | other coping mechanisms besides allowing yourself more time that help you muster up the focus |
| 2:17.9 | required for necessary functioning. What do you do in this impossible situation? Call or text us |
| 2:24.9 | at two, one, two, four, three, WNYC, two, one, two, four, three, three, nine, six, nine, two. Or maybe |
| 2:33.8 | you have a child and you're the parent of a child struggling with ADHD. Are you still struggling |
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