> The Adderall shortage is 100% the governments fault. A balanced, reasoned view if ever there was one. New Adderall prescriptions _doubled_ in 2021 from the

> The Adderall shortage is 100% the governments fault. A balanced, reasoned view if ever there was one. New Adderall prescriptions _doubled_ in 2021 from the previous year. No one in favor of eliminating/increasing the caps seems eager to account for this. At the end of 2022, months into the shortage, manufacturers collectively had 77,000 lbs of the active raw ingredient on hand (allotment of which is the thing subject to quotas), but naturally no share of the fault goes to them! > theyve shut down multiple producers for absolute bullshit such as "had an extra copy of the regulatory paperwork" I'm guessing this is in reference to Ascent keeping two copies of DEA Form 222, in which case I find your framing to be pretty dishonest. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adderall-shortage-adhd-medication-ascent-pharmaceuticals.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adderall-shortage-ad... "The government learned that Ascent kept two sets of DEA Form 222 — a standard regulatory form that tracks every batch of raw material that enters a factory and every finished pill that is shipped out. Ascent’s employees maintained one set of what the company called “working” 222s and one set of “official” ones that it filed to the government." Sounds like keeping two sets of books to me.