i have pretty significant (i am trying to stop saying "bad" because fuck capitalism-centric value judgement of brain function) adhd, for which i take adderall, and currently in the us there is a major adderall shortage due to incredibly headass policies as "drugs" continue to be used as a political tool to the detriment of everyone who needs them for whatever reason
despite this, my personal access to adderall has been relatively unimpeded somehow.
i have had to wait a day or two here or there for a script to be filled, but i haven't ever been in real danger of running out of my meds. why?
i don't know the answer. i don't have any particular data to support any conclusion. but my speculation, my intuition i guess, is that a lot of the answer lies in the relative affluence of the community i live in, and thus some degree of preferential treatment in terms of distribution
it would not surprise me at all if pharmacies received drugs like adderall apportioned by some classification of "risk of abuse", something like how likely suppliers or regulators or something believe it is that customers at that pharmacy will abuse or sell their prescription medications
maybe i'm wrong and i've just been lucky, but i've kind of learned at this point that if i'm persistently lucky in a particular way, there's probably something systemic going on
like i said, i have absolutely no evidence here, this is just a gut sense based on a general sense of how this shit is set up, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out this is the case
and if anybody actually knows how distribution is handled, please do let me know, i'd love to have some sense of how true or false or incomplete my intuition about this is!
