generic Adderall is back in stock at my pharmacy 🎉 was really starting to worry they weren't going to get more until next calendar year or whenever the annual quotas reset or whatever, but I got both 30 mg xr for me and 20 mg xr for my son
so, check yours, it might be back for you, too
also, the one tech at my pharmacy that has never once been anything but barely civil with me was finally nice to me this week, which has given me another little data point that affirms my impression that pharmacy staff treats me better after having bought the name brand.
have you had that experience?
the same thing happened at two other chains: there would always be a couple people on staff who were a little gruff with me in a way they weren't with other people in line ahead of me, until the day I bought name brand from them.
(a third place treated me so poorly after they pulled my info up in the computer the very first time I went that I cried on the way home and never went back. 
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my suspicion is that they're generally skeptical of anyone getting stimulants, but if I'm "willing" to pay a couple hundred per prescription per month for it, then I become less sketchy because obviously I and my kid "really need it."
it's possible that they just suddenly see me as pitiable; I'm sure my voice and face change drastically in the seconds after they tell me the generic isn't available.
or maybe I seem less likely to sell it if I can "afford" hundreds of dollars for the name brand.
nevermind the actual situation, which is that I'm only able to "afford" it or "willing" to pay that because I can beg my family for help, and there are plenty of people (who need it to have any executive function just as much as my kid and I do!) who just Do Not Have That Option.
when this happens to me, it makes me wonder how they treated everyone who couldn't afford the name brand. are they even more suspicious of them now?
I don't have a better theory for their line of thinking, and surprise surprise, the logic doesn't even hold up, imo. I could even see someone being more tempted to sell a couple day-off doses to recoup some of those hundreds they spent on the name brand – you do occasionally need to eat, after all.
thank you, Puritanical Culture and War on Drugs
Hot take: Stimulants should be available behind the counter, without even needing a prescription. There is absolutely no reason for them to be limited beyond the pharmacist asking a couple questions to verify you know what you’re doing.
But ClimateChangeAnxiety, what if people just use them for fun! As is their fucking right. Who are you to decide what drugs people can and can’t use just because they’re fun? Alcohol has no productive use and I can buy it at gas stations.
I vaguely understand the need to make some drugs at least somewhat restricted. Somewhat, kinda, maybe, tbh I’m not entirely sold on the idea. But basic stimulants should not be on the restricted list, at all. If you want to take Adderall more power to you, do what you want.
I literally see no valid reason to restrict access to Adderall outside of “The cruelty is the point”
Edit: My partner was able to come up with one other small reason which is just “People on stimulants who don’t need them are kind of annoying to be around” lmao
The only type of drug I can think of a good reason for it to be prescription controlled is stuff like antibiotics where overuse can breed antibiotic resistant bacteria. And even then the biggest problem is factory farms using them completely carelessly.
Even if someone disagrees with your argument, there are alternative versions such as lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) and methylphenidate formulations (Jornay PM, etc.) that cannot be separated from their extended release mechanisms. They literally cannot be abused.
Lisdexamfetamine exists as a generic now too and shouldn't cost more than $15 for 30 pills (though I know there are pharmacies that will price gouge it). I don't know why any med provider would put you on Adderall at this point besides insurance issues and lisdexamfetamine is a pro-drug that delays access to the active drug in a way that is dependent on enzyme activity in your red blood cells. There is a hard rate of release limit to how much can be made available and this cannot be overcome. Methylphenidate isn't quite there in terms of access due to IP, but it's on its way.
Keeping the more advanced versions of these stimulants as schedule II is nothing but cruel. Either the limiting mechanisms are proven and they should not be restricted, or you don't trust them and never should have approved the drugs for use.
As poorly as the industry treats pharmacy workers I am always impressed they manage to care about their jobs at all. Much less that they woudl form emotional relationships with drug manufacturers. That does seem to happen. So I guess I am just not built to understand them
Where I live pharmacists are required by law to ask if you want the cheapest available brand of the medication. I've never experienced them being weird to anyone who says yes, probably because most people do when asked directly.
They are weird about stimulants though. I get prescriptions for three bottles of 30 pills each. Because it is a stimulant I have to buy all three bottles at once. For some kind of war on drugs-related reason they legally can't let me make three purchases for one bottle each to spread out the cost. And I've experienced them get super pissy about me wanting to just buy one of the three bottles and then get my GP to make a new prescription next month.
I usually buy mine online and they handle stimulants really badly. One online pharmacy has decided that my concerta is too risky to send through the mail, requiring me to pick it up at pharmacy. Another one can't be arsed to make their price calculation algorithm factor in national health insurance coverage for stimulants, charging me full price every time.
also, the one tech at my pharmacy that has never once been anything but barely civil with me was finally nice to me this week, which has given me another little data point that affirms my impression that pharmacy staff treats me better after having bought the name brand.
have you had that experience?
I've had the opposite experience, the pharmacists remind me to buy the generics. I think that they know I'm broke lol, or they could be required to by law. I don't know which it is, but it's cool.
