It has been four months since the FDA announced a national shortage of Adderall -- the medication used as treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As a result, some patients have resorted to rationing their doses. AliBaumanTV reports.
As a shortage of drugs to treat ADHD continues, some patients have resorted to rationing their doses.A Princeton, New Jersey-based writer diagnosed with ADHD, Trainor relies on the drug to meet her deadlines."After I got out of the pharmacy and found out they didn't have it, I started crying in my car. I couldn't handle it. I couldn't contain myself because it really is something I rely on to be functional," Trainor said.
"It has really been the longest and broadest shortage we've had," said Dr. Andrew Adesman, a pediatrician at Cohen Children's Medical Center."This has been a tremendous hardship for families," Adesman said."On the one hand, there are other medicines children can be tried on, but on the other hand, there's no assurance those medicines will be available or the children will do as well.
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