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Amid Adderall shortage, people with ADHD face withdrawal and despair

Without medication, patients are wondering what comes next.

By the time Michael Kenneally found himself pacing outside a CVS drugstore in Cambridge, Mass., this summer, he was on a first-name basis with the pharmacist. Kenneally, 48, had been told multiple times that his Adderall prescription couldn't be filled. For 25 days, he continued to check by phone and in person.

Kenneally had been on the medication to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, for 25 years. "It's been so long for me that I've been on it that it's difficult to function without it," he said.

https://www.startribune.com/amid-adderall-shortage-people-with-adhd-face-withdrawal-and-despair/600226681/

 

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