Talk:Adderall

Generic term for Adderall?

Evening all. Just wondering if there is a shorter generic term for Adderall (so that there is not the need to use a proprietary brand name to refer to the compound? Perhaps Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine? Not being a chemist or a doctor not sure if this would be appropriate at all. Thunderstorm008 (talk · contributions) 17:03, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

See Special:Permalink/854757323#cite_ref-Adderall_4-0 / Special:Permalink/854757323#cite_note-Adderall-4. The most commonly used term to refer to mixture of amphetamine salts used in Adderall and Mydayis is "mixed amphetamine salts", but that's not an "official" non-proprietary name (e.g., a USAN or INN). Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 03:45, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Here they call it Kiddy speed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.107.153.65 (talk) 16:58, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

It's an American proprietary witches' brew of different amphetamine compounds. The US is much happier to refer to medications by proprietary names than other places because of the way the healthcare system works (or doesn't) there. --Ef80 (talk) 14:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Deviant personality characteristics

Among these students, some of the risk factors for misusing ADHD stimulants recreationally include: possessing deviant personality characteristics (i.e., exhibiting delinquent or deviant behavior), inadequate accommodation of special needs, basing one's self-worth on external validation, low self-efficacy, earning poor grades, and suffering from an untreated mental health disorder.[70]

Examples of deviant personality characteristics include: deviant behavior - Seems quite open to interpretation, and I'm not sure "deviant" is the proper term to use when classifying these individuals.

Transclusion and fragility ==

This article is built by transcluding many things -- article sections, templates, and so on. That makes it quite fragile. I raised the issue over at Talk:Amphetamine#Transclusion, and maybe you'd like to participate there if you have ideas about how it might be improved. -- Mikeblas (talk) 15:18, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

"Adderall®" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Adderall® and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#Adderall® until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 04:38, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Treatment for long-term Covid

This drug is getting prescribed to treat long-term Covid brain fog. Have read that this large new group of people who use it are putting pressure on supply in US. Also wondering about if LTC folks have good outcomes with the drug. Maybe too early to say for a W article? OrangeCounty (talk) 12:02, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Shortages

Shortages section needs a lot of work. FDA actually first reported the shortage in I think may or june, then declared it to be over in I believe September. The actual shortage started back in 2021. There are references that mention that if people look hard enough.

It needs to be noted that shortages as reported by the FDA are based on voluntary reporting by manufacturers and is not required. And therefore do not accurately represent shortages as seen by consumers. If they choose not to report then it goes without being recognized by the FDA. So, when Teva waited till late spring I think of 2022 to bother to report their shortage, there was already a profound effect on users having issues getting their script filled and they got back lash for waiting too long. Also, manufactures tend to downplay the extent of the issue and underestimate the time to the shortage being over. All this is documented in articles if people look. I don't have the time to go back and dig every thing up again.

And if putting a shortages section. If people don't know when the other shortages were over the years, should at least mention that the most recent one is not the only one. I know there was one I believe in 2012 when I think Shire redirected the API to their Vyvanse instead of distributing it to the generic companies as they were contracted to. Causing the shortage.

There is a document in 2015 to congress from an investigation into the DEA noting all their shortcomings and failures in regards to their control of the amphetamine API and quota system from the 2012 shortage. Which can also show how they impacted and again exacerbated the current shortage.

There was at least 1 other shortage but not as bad between the 2012 and current one. Forget when it was exactly. So, I think the shortages section should be renamed to "Shortage 2021 to 2023" because "Shortages" implies more than one, and only 1 is listed skipping all the others, and the info is incorrect at that to begin with. Until someone feels like putting in effort for either title, it should be removed. 2601:86:600:A85:14B1:C34D:88DA:1EF1 (talk) 05:26, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Please correct...

(1) Please correct the following appearing content to a scholarly understanding of molecular microbiology:

"Since the total number of microbial and viral cells..."

(2) Please do the same to the source of the content, in the referenced section of the Amphetamines article.

(3) More broadly, please consider whether this article needs such a long introductory paragraph as the one containing this sentence. The shorter following paragraph is indeed relevant to the article. In this editor's opinion, there is no need to spend as much time defining a field as presenting a specific result from it; the content giving explanatory and defining information (e.g., indicating numbers of microbial cells in the microbiome, etc.) is superfluous.

The entire first paragraph here could be replaced by one sentence with a wikilink and a citation or two (serving as an introductory sentence to the content of the current second paragraph). 73.8.193.28 (talk) 00:22, 3 December 2023 (UTC)