generic Adderall is back in stock at my pharmacy 🎉 was really starting to worry they weren’t going to get more until next calendar year or whenever the annual quotas reset or whatever, but I got both 30 mg xr for me and 20 mg xr for my son
so, check yours, it might be back for you, too
also, the one tech at my pharmacy that has never once been anything but barely civil with me was finally nice to me this week, which has given me another little data point that affirms my impression that pharmacy staff treats me better after having bought the name brand.
have you had that experience?
the same thing happened at two other chains: there would always be a couple people on staff who were a little gruff with me in a way they weren’t with other people in line ahead of me, until the day I bought name brand from them.
(a third place treated me so poorly after they pulled my info up in the computer the very first time I went that I cried on the way home and never went back. 
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my suspicion is that they’re generally skeptical of anyone getting stimulants, but if I’m “willing” to pay a couple hundred per prescription per month for it, then I become less sketchy because obviously I and my kid “really need it.”
it’s possible that they just suddenly see me as pitiable; I’m sure my voice and face change drastically in the seconds after they tell me the generic isn’t available.
or maybe I seem less likely to sell it if I can “afford” hundreds of dollars for the name brand.
nevermind the actual situation, which is that I’m only able to “afford” it or “willing” to pay that because I can beg my family for help, and there are plenty of people (who need it to have any executive function just as much as my kid and I do!) who just Do Not Have That Option.
when this happens to me, it makes me wonder how they treated everyone who couldn’t afford the name brand. are they even more suspicious of them now?
I don’t have a better theory for their line of thinking, and surprise surprise, the logic doesn’t even hold up, imo. I could even see someone being more tempted to sell a couple day-off doses to recoup some of those hundreds they spent on the name brand – you do occasionally need to eat, after all.
thank you, Puritanical Culture and War on Drugs
Where I live pharmacists are required by law to ask if you want the cheapest available brand of the medication. I’ve never experienced them being weird to anyone who says yes, probably because most people do when asked directly.
They are weird about stimulants though. I get prescriptions for three bottles of 30 pills each. Because it is a stimulant I have to buy all three bottles at once. For some kind of war on drugs-related reason they legally can’t let me make three purchases for one bottle each to spread out the cost. And I’ve experienced them get super pissy about me wanting to just buy one of the three bottles and then get my GP to make a new prescription next month.
I usually buy mine online and they handle stimulants really badly. One online pharmacy has decided that my concerta is too risky to send through the mail, requiring me to pick it up at pharmacy. Another one can’t be arsed to make their price calculation algorithm factor in national health insurance coverage for stimulants, charging me full price every time.