The adderall shortage has hit me hard over the last year, but I finally found a pharmacy that is able to fill my script every month. I occasionally try other pharmacies closer to me and they tell me they are still in back order for months. The one that has it consistently is a super small mom-and-pop shop and even major pharmacies like CVS have been out for ages. How do some pharmacies get it all the time and others don’t?
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Independent/mom and pop pharmacies often have multiple vendors they get their stock from. This gives them multiple options to get things that are in low supply.
Believe it or not, the chains only use one primary vendor for the things not carried directly by our main warehouse, such as C2 medications (Adderall and the like). CVS uses Cardinal, and Walgreens uses McKesson.
So you’ve basically got several thousand stores attempting to order a significant quantity of medication daily. Manufacturers are only able to produce so much at one time, so it has to be allocated. Believe me, the backordered medications are ordered daily, they’re not trying once and then forgetting about it.
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