Dear Big Pharma, FDA & Whomever Else It May Concern:

 

FIX THE FUCKING ADDERALL SHORTAGE FOR CHRIST SAKE!  This has been going on for 3 consecutive years; there's no excuse for it any longer.  And it's starting even earlier than usual this year--March instead of the Summer months.  

I was just informed after a week of waiting that I shouldn't expect my prescription medication WHICH I REQUIRE TO LIVE SAFELY ON MY OWN for the next few days or maybe even another week.  "We haven't gotten any of the 20 mg. Extended Release in a long time" were her exact words.  Boy, that's reassuring for someone who struggles with unexpected changes of plans on top of major executive function issues & a serious sleep disorder.  How you gon' be a pharmacy with no medications?  Dreadful!

In all seriousness, this is not okay.  Like not at all.  And Adderall is far from the only Rx drug they've been unable to keep in stock since 2020.  A loved one was unable to get her antidepressant and ended up at the Walgreens counter crying, shaking & threatening to hurt herself after driving all over town last summer in the heat, so they ended up giving her someone else's meds.  She was in acute withdrawal & was not just being a diva about it. 

Do they not realize that quitting a medication abruptly, regardless of what it is, can cause severe and even deadly withdrawals?  (By "they" I don't mean the lowly pharmacy techs who have no control over this issue of course, I mean "THEY" the multi-billionaire pharma bros & FDA chiefs who form a revolving door from one agency to the other, simultaneously getting rich from overpriced patented drugs while fighting tooth and nail to ban anything that would compete with their monopoly on our health, like kratom, N-acetylcysteine, CBD & the wide range of once-OTC substances they made Rx-only with the deceptively named "COVID CARES Act").  

While the government may not CAUSE crises like COVID or 9/11, it's certainly true that they never let a good crisis go to waste.  

But y'all capitalism-lovin' freedom fighters keep pushing the propaganda against universal healthcare while simultaneously bitching about the price of drugs & the shit-tier quality of healthcare.  Sorry Jethro, but you're gonna have to pick one.  Just like the pro-drug war climate change deniers who also believe illegal immigrants are the scourge of this nation, or the bootstrap-pulling assholes who oppose the existence of welfare AND paying all workers a living wage, your views cancel each other out.  Either things are going to get progressively worse in regards to how badly private insurance companies, doctors/hospitals & the pharma companies are ripping you off, or you're going to try doing what the rest of the developed world is doing by taking the profit motive out of medicine.  There is no viable third option.  If you're against illegal immigration, you can't support the drug war which is driving people across the border in droves as they flee cartel violence (while the rest are simply starving due to crop failure caused by climate change, as was the case with the 2018 Guatamalan "caravan").  Ditto your conflicting views on starvation wages & ending welfare.  YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PICK ONE.  

Sorry, was my all-caps button stuck again or was I yelling?

It's just so frustrating watching our public institutions rot while our private and corporate ones continue outsourcing jobs to the lowest bidder, resulting in an ever-worsening standard of living for the rest of us.  The reason there was no food on the store shelves during the pandemic is because we get 99.999% of our products from China and other nations abroad.  When all the other countries responsibly chose to lock down during the pandemic, no ships were moving our shit.  All this talk of China plotting a nuclear attack is laughable when all they'd need to do is cut off our supply of food, drinks, tech, textiles, drugs, medical supplies, electronics & other goods and we'd be toast.  That's not a "communist plot" on China or Russia's part, it's a direct result of OUR politicians signing bills like NAFTA that allow our labor to be outsourced to sweatshop kids overseas, prison inmates at home & undocumented immigrants who get soaked in pesticides daily so you can eat cheap fruit.  And your lack of understanding of the problem/failure to do anything about it is a direct result of the crumbling of our public education system.  

But yes, let's have a literal replay of 2020 with two elderly demented stimulant abusers running for POTUS so everyone can get enraged at each other instead of noticing how badly we're all getting screwed.  Come to think of it, maybe that's where all the Adderall is going.  🤨 💊 🇺🇲 🫡

 

Rumors that Trump snorts Adderall have circulated since "The Apprentice," while Biden's ancient ass has to be amped up just to function.