The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning those who take medication for ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, could face a disruption in accessing care after two executives were arrested for a $100 million fraud scheme.
The CDC issued a health advisory to inform public health officials, clinicians and patients about the potential for medication distribution to be affected.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released information Thursday on the arrests of a California-based digital health company’s CEO and clinical president.
The duo was arrested for their alleged participation in attempting to distribute Adderall over the internet, commit health care fraud by submitting false claims for reimbursement for the drug, and obstructing justice, the DOJ’s release said.
FWIW the main meds can be started/stopped at will. They aren’t like the drugs that mess directly with neurotransmitter chemical reactions directly.
It is, however, very upsetting to go from functional to dysfunctional for reasons outside of your control. Experienced that a lot with the last shortage.
That’s also exactly how an addict of any drug feels. Speaking as a former opiate addict because I was young and doctors shoved it at me in the early 2000s after a knee injury, when they decided they fucked up they just stopped giving it to me but it was already too late. Which lead to 15 years of drug problems that devastated my life and permanently fucked me up. It was more than upsetting, it was outright hell. But they came out with a great new drug that would “get me off the opiates” and addicted to an even more addictive alternative that’s almost harder to get prescribed. They should just keep making the damn things in abundance because people die every day because street drugs are questionable but addiction doesn’t care and will take that chance. One fake pill with fentanyl in it will kill you if not made properly and addiction to regulated accessible drugs will not (but night make you wish they would). Sorry for the rant, I’m not bitching at you, just the situation.
Uh, I’m not talking about withdrawals. I’m saying that after 20 years of being a failure and “slacker”, I finally got my life together. Heck, I could make goals and achieve them. And then to go back to what it was. Fucking hurts.
So it sounds like it was different then lmfao
To clarify why you’re getting downvoted:
ADHD is among the most studied of psychological disorders. It is caused by physiological differences in the prefrontal cortex. You come across as ableist, dismissing this very real and frequently debilitating psychological disorder that people are born with. Like telling someone with recurrent major depressive disorder to “just cheer up” or someone with a compound fracture to “walk it off”.
Would you tell someone with a black mamba bite that was begging for antivenin that they sounded like an addict due to their desire for medicine to treat their medical condition?
As a farmer, especially during something like seeding or harvest where focus and not making mistakes are critical.
Fortunately I got my doc to prescribe me XR dexadrine + IR to use as a top up/enhancer. I rarely take the IR or just add a half pill on long days, but always fill the prescription as if I take it every day, giving me a large supply to ride through shortages.
Very fair point.
There’s another side of the coin due to that: when faced with scarcity some people tend to adjust their medication, taking half dosage in order to ration for example, and given the addictive qualities, probably not good for some of those people to wind up with a lack of structure in regard to adhering to the dosage and a surplus of amphetamines.
It’d be interesting to see some studies come out looking into any correlation between disruptions in supply and negative outcomes due to addiction