Adderall is officially in short supply

For weeks, pharmacists astir the United States person been struggling to capable prescriptions for Adderall, and connected Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed the nationwide shortage.

“There is not capable proviso to proceed to conscionable US marketplace demand,” the bureau said successful a statement.

In August, implicit 60 percent of pharmacists had occupation getting Adderall, which tin dainty ADHD, according to a survey from the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Most of the challenges are attributed to manufacturing problems astatine the pharmaceutical institution Teva, which produces much of the stimulant medicine than immoderate different institution successful the US. The company said successful August that it was having delays due to the fact that of labour shortages. Other companies that marque generic Adderall besides person had the cause connected backorder since the extremity of the summer.

Demand for the cause is besides astatine an all-time high. “The proviso that we are manufacturing/distributing close present is connected gait to beryllium accordant — oregon greater than — our proviso astatine this clip past twelvemonth by the extremity of this year. The request is not,” an unnamed Teva spokesperson told ABC News.

Adderall prescriptions person been steadily expanding implicit the past decade. Over the people of the COVID-19 pandemic, determination was a important uptick successful prescriptions for radical betwixt 22 and 44, according to an analysis from healthcare analytics institution Trilliant Health.

There are much prescriptions successful that property bracket than ADHD diagnoses, according to the analysis. That mightiness beryllium successful portion due to the fact that radical could get Adderall prescriptions done direct-to-consumer telehealth startups, which popped up to instrumentality vantage of relaxed rules astir controlled substance prescriptions during the pandemic. Some of the startups, similar Cerebral and Done, are nether probe by national agencies implicit their prescribing practices.

The FDA expects astir dosages of Teva’s generic Adderall to beryllium connected backorder until March.