While cocaine was once the drug of choice, bankers are now reportedly turning to the ADHD medication for work days that can last as long as 22 hours, along with nicotine patches and energy drinks. 90-hour-a-week Wall Street bankers snorting lines of Adderall at their desks – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/15/90-hour-a-week-wall-street-bankers-snorting-adderall-desks/
It never ceases to amaze this Old Underwriter how people manage to find creative ways to kill themselves.
Telehealth company Cerebral has agreed to pay a fine of more than $3.6 million for allegedly attempting to boost prescriptions of Adderall and other controlled substances, the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday.
Regulators allege Cerebral’s initial visit metric didn’t consider medical literature or whether prescriptions would be clinically appropriate for patients. The company also used financial incentives to spur providers to meet prescribing metrics — and even considered disciplinary measures for those who hadn’t prescribed enough stimulants for ADHD patients, according to a press release.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cerebral-controlled-substance-prescribing-fine-doj-dea/732108/
This company agreed to a fine it was unable to pay so the regulators deferred payment.
Huh?
This shortage is complicated, and has several causes. Teva Pharmaceuticals, for instance, which is the largest producer, had problems with its factory. And yet, Teva today has Adderall to sell, as do many other producers, but the shortage persists. What is going on? I suspect that we aren’t hearing about one part of the problem. Monopolization. Indeed, monopolies often leads to shortages, which we’ve seen with baby formula, hospital medicine, ammunition, and military equipment. And they are a part of the problem here.
The Monopolies Behind the Adderall Shortage — https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-monopolies-behind-the-adderall?publication_id=11524&post_id=110279315&isFreemail=true
The opioid graphic will make a lot more sense when the read the entire article.
A 2013 report by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that emergency room visits related to nonmedical use of prescription stimulants among adults 18 to 34 tripled from 2005 to 2011, to almost 23,000.
via Workers Seeking Productivity in a Pill Are Abusing A.D.H.D. Drugs – NYTimes.com.
“It is necessary — necessary for survival of the best and the smartest and highest-achieving people.”
The counterfeit Adderall tablets are round, white and do not have any type of markings, such as letters or numbers. Authentic Adderall 30 mg tablets produced by Teva are round, orange/peach, and scored tablets with “dp” embossed on one side and “30” on the other side of the tablet.
Adderall contains four active ingredients – dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate, and amphetamine sulfate. Instead of these active ingredients, the counterfeit product contained tramadol and acetaminophen, which are ingredients in medicines used to treat acute pain.
If you or your child is bouncing off the walls AND you bought Adderall off the Internet, check to see if your tablets are white and have no markings.
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