With pharmacies unable to fill prescriptions, many ADHD patients are turning to Craigslist to buy illicit pills online
Peruse an online marketplace like Craigslist, and you’ll find coded classified ads for “Study Help” and “Study Hall”, or calls looking for a “Study Buddy”. Despite the scholarly language, these aren’t people looking for pre-final cram session. They’re plugs for Adderall: the trade name for a combination of amphetamine salts long prescribed as a first-choice treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s a drug that is, of late, in perilously short supply.
The US National Institute for Mental Health estimates that ADHD affects 4.4% of adults between the ages of 18 and 44. The number of adults treated for ADHD has increased in recent decades, attributable to the wider destigmatization of diagnosing the disorder in adults as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its knockback effects on adult mental health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that adult prescriptions for ADHD medication increased by 7.9% between 2020 and 2021, compared with a 1.4% average annual increase between 2016 and 2020. In 2021, doctors authorized in excess of 30m prescriptions for Adderall, serving nearly 4 million patients.
But over the past two years, many of patients have been unable to procure their prescription, due to manufacturing shortfalls. With the delta between demand and supply widening, some adults with diagnosed ADHD are forced to forsake CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens and other drug retailers, and turn elsewhere.
In theory, perhaps. But for anyone who’s actually taken or abused it, and especially to anyone who’s taken or abused both, they’re remarkably similar, particularly in how addictive they are.
Absolutely not. That is complete bullshit.
Here on earth, that’s the reality of it. Welcome to the planet. Adderall is just low-grade meth.
You’re just a low-grade troll.
No, I have decades of experience with amphetamine addicts, while you’re sitting here, splitting hairs. There’s such a thing as reality, and I suggest you acquaint yourself with it.
Also ironic.
Who knows, he might be right. After all, Tylenol 3 is just low grade fentanyl
Maybe for meth heads. For people with ADHD the difference between adderall and desoxyn is massive as is it for people who actually study the pharmacological effects. Desoxyn is a huge burst with lots of jitters as opposed to a calm but firm focus
I never mentioned desoxyn. But thanks for the strawman.
Do you not know what it is?
I do. I just think trying to split that hair is a clumsy and obvious straw man.
The person, like everyone else here, is trying to engage properly in a conversation. You throwing out “strawman” this and “strawman” that doesn’t add anything. The person gave an example of what they have experience of, and the difference between two ‘methyl’ meds. The only person splitting hairs here is you, who sees any attempt at a discussion as a personal slight.
He only know how to type strawman leave him alone man