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How much longer is this "supply chain" problem going to go on for?
The supply chain was fixed at least by 2022, according to someone I know who works for an economic think tank. What we're experiencing is greedflation and what happens when people pick monsters to be in charge.
It was my understanding that the current shortage was due to the DEA restricting the raw materials used to make it.
Worse, it's going to get worse by every metric in the US. For how long? How quickly can you get the mango mussolini out?
Don't forget Anti-Fluoride Jr., who doesn't believe in stimulant based adhd meds.
The only way I see this administration opening up access would be because someone close has money in it. There is a ton of pharmaceutical money in politics so that is where I'm hanging hope.
It's got to change, right?
I'm hoarding my pills as it is, taking weekends off and the occasional weekday...and asking my doc for a refill 28 days out from the last fill regardless of how many I have left.
I take Vyvanse for ADHD + BED...it helps tons with squelching "food chatter"...so I am not getting distracted by a constant desire to snack and stay on-task. It seems to have helped with my social anxiety as well since I'm less clammed-up when medicated.
Doc suggested I try Concerta if Vyvanse is hard to come by, but Concerta hasn't been too much better.
And I'm sure the pharmacy's are just as tired of me calling them for inventory questions as I am.
I just wish there was a better way. The whole situation, and that it had gone in this long, is just absurd.
In the case of Vyvanse I almost get it, since it's a newly genericized med. I used to work in Pharmacy Billing and I know insurance companies will not accept brand due to industry shortage of generic.
There were plenty of times when a new generic would hit the market by one manufacturer and it'd take months for them to scale up enough to match demand, but the entire time, insurance companies deny the brand because there's a generic "available".
But it's not just Vyvanse, it's all of them.