Charity ADHD UK says NHS’s failure to act sooner is devastating for those living with the condition
  • NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca
    35·
    2 years ago

    As someone who takes an ADHD medication, I find the idea of a drug shortage terrifying. Life gets so, so much harder when I’m unmedicated.

    It’s like the difference between walking on a sidewalk and walking in sucking mud, with stuff falling out of your pockets you have to keep going back to find. You build a life that’s only possible thanks to your ability to walk on sidewalks. If you suddenly find you can only get around by walking through mud, even with a huge amount of will power, you’re going to watch your life fall apart as you just can’t keep up the pace of your old life.

    • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Very early in my life I told my dad I wanted off of Ritalin because it didn’t feel sustainable for me. So when I was about 8 or 9 I chose to try to create mental tools to deal with ADHD over medication. I don’t know if it worked as well. It’d be nice to have a prescription that worked for me. I went to try other prescriptions a few times and never felt like they worked for me. I might try to go back to Ritalin but with the shortage it feels pointless to try to do.

  • jasondj@ttrpg.network
    7·
    2 years ago

    I just started Adderal XR (generic) a couple months ago. I’ve been lucky im finding it but my doctor (and myself) would rather be on vyvanse.

    Luckily there’s a new generic for Vyvanse. Unfortunately nobody has it in stock yet and now that it exists, insurance companies don’t want to pay for brand (which is also in short supply)

  • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Hell, the US shortage is so bad my usual pharmacy told me they wouldn’t be honoring my prescription, everyone I called refused to answer if they could and would usually just hang up on me, and my Dr refused to help find someone

    Kinda don’t blame the UK if it’s anything like that there

    • yads@lemmy.ca
      0·
      2 years ago

      One of my kids just started on 2 different medications in Canada and we had no problem. Wouldn’t have even thought there were shortages elsewhere

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        It’s because of how your province negotiated the contract for the drugs. I guarantee that there’s language in there that has penalties if there’s supply problems.

        Countries that don’t negotiate drug prices/contracts are the ones that are suffering with shortages.

        Insert Morpheus meme about people’s worst fears about socialism being realized under capitalism.

    • Zippy@lemmy.world
      52·
      2 years ago

      Every other type of market system ensures there simply is no access.

      China drugs hardly go thru any tests to ensure they are safe. Simply release them to market and check for negative side effects after.

      • zephyreks@lemmy.mlOPM
        84·
        2 years ago

        Fentanyl is manufactured for medical use in the massive and extremely lucrative US market. The fact that American drug cartels import it for sale on the black market is an unfortunate side-effect.

        The solution to the opioid epidemic is stupidly simple: enable safe supply so that addicts don’t have to destroy their lives in pursuit of their addiction. That, by the way, is an addiction created by US pharmaceutical companies forcing doctors to overprescribe opioids despite knowing how addicting they are.

        China doesn’t have to wage shadow warfare when the US is happy to do so to itself.