generic Adderall restock, pharmacy tech attitudes

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. )

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

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1 month ago

The only type of drug I can think of a good reason for it to be prescription controlled is stuff like antibiotics where overuse can breed antibiotic resistant bacteria. And even then the biggest problem is factory farms using them completely carelessly.