A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

  • bramblepatchmystery
    11·
    4 months ago

    Thankfully severe cases are the minority.

    But even in severe cases, I think Now that we have the option to work our way up the ladder to adderall and dysoxin(?), we should have all future diagnoses go up that ladder.

    Obviously people who have been on adderall for decades are probably going to have a bad time if they are switched to bupropion immediately, but adderall shouldn’t be the default that children have to offramp from.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      Thankfully you aren’t in charge of others medical decisions. What is most likely to be effective should be the default.

      • bramblepatchmystery
        11·
        4 months ago

        The medical industry has essentially done exactly what I have said over the last 10 years.