A mysterious Adderall shortage reveals how America fails ADHD patients

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A mysterious Adderall shortage reveals how America fails ADHD patients
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Patients are struggling to obtain essential medications after an early-pandemic healthcare transformation

it was considering revoking the license of Truepill, Cerebral’s preferred pharmacy, alleging that Truepill had “wrongfully filled thousands of prescriptions” for ADHD medications. Cerebral, Done, and Truepill have denied wrongdoing and have said they are cooperating with investigators. Robertson has also denied wrongdoing and called his firing “illegal”. Simone BilesSimone Biles announced she was leaving Cerebral in December.

But as ADHD care gets even harder to access, it’s marginalized people who are hit the hardest. Years of research have shown that non-male, non-white, and poor children are under-diagnosed with ADHD, as their symptoms are more likely to be seen as misbehavior and punished. Even if they do get diagnosed, they’re less likely to be able to find a doctor.Despite ADHD’s prevalence, the United States has surprisingly few physicians to treat it.

“Our government and corporate overlords are just hoarding their resources,” they say. “It’s madness to not allow us to at the very least do our job.”Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA Until then, the DEA appears to have decided that suspicion is its safest option. The agency’s order-monitoring rules are expected to become even stricter this year. Awould expand the definition of a “suspicious order” to include unusual characteristics “of the customer submitting the order”. It means anyone requesting controlled substances could be be flagged for any reason – yet another barrier for ADHD patients.

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