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Every month I go through so many steps to get my kids the concert of that they need.

Christine Leroux of Charleston, South Carolina estimates she spends up to eight hours every month

tracking down prescription medication to treat her children's ADHD.

Call all of the pharmacies, navigate their phone trees, talk to somebody in the pharmacy staff

about whether the prescription was actually in stock, calling multiple pharmacies

and asking all of those questions.

And then when you find it in stock you have to call the doctor's office

and have them send the eScribe and hope and pray that they actually get it there

before somebody else fills their prescription at that pharmacy where you did find availability.

Like Christine, many Americans have been hit hard by a shortage of these prescription drugs.

Here's Christopher Bell.

It's been crazy.

I've been on an off-ADHD medication prescribed by an entire life practically

being told by a doctor you're just going to have to wait it out.

There's not another option. It's pretty insane.

In October 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced there was a limited supply of Adderall,

one of the most popular drugs prescribed for people with ADHD.

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