Sudden Dextroamphetamine Price Quadruple???? (Page 6) (Top voted first)

What happened? Oh, no... I am f+#*ed. Went to Walgreens to fill dextroamph rx tonight. Instead of approx. $75 they said for me with self-pay it's $355+!!!! This is for ONE month. No way I can afford it! Suddenly? What the _ do I do? Taper down with the 2 more days of pills that I have? So, you just blow, they are saying to me. Just be sick, and here, we'll make it so you're much, much sicker!!!

Are all the pharmacies going to have the same astronomical price hike? Has anyone got information about about this?

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Contact your state Ombudsman's office and ask if they can assist you in any way. I currently have one helping me in my own state.

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Teva Barr is not the only manufacture of Dextroamphetamine IR, but Walgreens will only sell that crap. Not only are they sub par in quality. i.e. they are worthless, ineffective, and cheaply made. I actually gained weight and could go straight to sleep on the Teva Barr's version of Dextroamphetamine IR. I switched to the generic made by Wilshire Pharmacutical which come in 5 and 10 mg. Rite Aid was the only Pharmacy that I could find in my area and most times I had to have it ordered. My doctor didn't like that I have to shop around and has now put me on a new Name Brand version called Zenzedi which comes in 8 different IR strengths. They are 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 15, 20. 25, 30 mg tablets of the IR. Here is a link to their site with a manufacturer's discount card for both Insured and cash paying patients who are eligible for $50 for a 30 day supply. zenzedi.com. The 5 and 10 mg are exactly the same as the generic sold by the Wilshire brand and are much cheeper with insurance. I am fortunate that I have great insurance, so Generic cost $15 and the Name Brand cost $25. I have taken Dexedrine for my ADHD since the early 1990's so I know the difference in quality; before that I took Ritalin since 1985. I first starting on the original GlaxoSmithKline IR and Spansules (a type of time release), but around 2000 they sold the rights off to Barr Pharmaceuticals now Teva Barr. I hope you are able to get your medication you need at a price you can afford.

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Re: Alyssa (# 96)

"Birth" control is a misnomer. Fertile women do not automatically get pregnant, it takes two to tango. When it comes to the rape epidemic (a real thing, unlike the "Opiate epidemic" which the gov't manufactured to take medicine away from the chronically ill based on those who use drugs without a doctor's prescription) it only takes one to decide to cause pregnancy. If the government started punishing rapists the way they (unjustly) punish compassionate doctors and pain patients, you'd see a lot less prescriptions for "birth" control. I don't know many women who would voluntarily submit to depression, weight gain, autoimmune disease and the other million side effects of "the pill" (or having painful items inserted in their internal organs) if they weren't both afraid of rape and recognized that any relationship with a male (a necessity for most women, given their need for warmth and affection and/or love of male attention, poverty, and feeling alone and vulnerable without one) involved them being used for his sexual satisfaction in the exact way that can cause pregnancy.

This isn't Obama, this is the cost of pregnancy-free partnering with males. Sexual intercourse, which society trumpets as the only reason for living, causes pregnancy. Males prefer this to other forms of sex even as it can disable or kill a woman who would never seek out this act of her own volition (unless she wanted to be pregnant) in the absence of the male desire to use her internal organs to catch friction for his climax.

From your post, I'd guess you are a Catholic against birth control. I am not Catholic, but have seen my female friends' lives destroyed by unwanted pregnancy, painful birth control (and painful birth or pregnancy termination when it fails) after being selfishly used by men they thought "loved" them when the men just wanted intercourse. My male friends are angry when these women get pregnant or want a relationship after having their internal organs throttled. They feel deceived thanks to the media brainwashing that women love being pummeled internally as much as men love aggressively pummeling.

"Birth" control will stop being subsidized when the act of intercourse is no longer wrongly equated (for women) with love or desirability, or (for men) glamorized as the ultimate conquering act ("scoring"). It, unlike other avenues that ONLY lead to physical pleasure (even for females), needs to be recognized as an act solely used if both partners want a child.

If I was female, and someone demanded that I either risk the life-changing, uncomfortable, and potentially disabling/deadly act of pregnancy or else take hormones or shove metals up my body so they can achieve sexual satisfaction in my internal organs while I risk urinary and genital infections and do not automatically climax the way they will, I'd tell them to take a hike. No one who valued me as a human being--let alone "liked" me or "loved" me--would ever demand this of me. Don't get me started on female friends paying for male perv doctors doing this to them every year, as well as groping their breasts, under the guise of "well women exams". At least no women pretend to like these the way they have to act as if they "love" their boyfriends' self-gratification...because if they didn't, he'd cheat on her, and that is a huge fear in a world where single women are seen as failures by women and prey for men.

Every one of my male hetero friends see their girlfriends as sexual gratification stations, and would dump them if they didn't allow the men to commit painful sexual acts on them irregardless of health or desire to not be pregnant. Every one of my female hetero friends would stay with their boyfriends even if they lost their genitals in an accident. Some even say it would improve her health, her sexual satisfaction, and their relationship!

My GLBT friends love their partners irrespective of reproductive ability/organs and do not see "sexual intercourse" as an exalted act, contrary to hetero male beliefs that being LGBT is "just about sex".

The mis-named "birth" control will be around raking in profits and ruining women's health as long as hetero men are selfish and women view being sexually desired (up to and including rape) as their highest priority, as well as how both hetero men and hetero women evaluate women.

In this environment, no one cares about ADHD and narcolepsy patients, let alone those with horribly painful chronic illnesses and disabilities. It's all about erectile dysfunction drugs, "birth" control, fertility drugs, and "medicines" to make women skinnier and their eye lashes "prettier" (Latisse). The whole world has become an IQ-challenged "reality" show, and the neuroatypical, ill, "old" (ie over 25 for women, 35 for men), and not obsessed with genitals are irrelevant.

Petitions protesting a rise of cost for "birth" control or erectile "dysfunction" drugs would be a number one news item, but protesting the ridiculous inflation of Dextroamphetamine? No way--our brains are seen as worthless in this prurient society. In fact, having a working brain is exactly what those in power DON'T want us to have.

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I"m in Western NY. Usually costs me, without insurance because i have none, $75 for 180 IR 10mg tablets, after the perscription savings card from walgreens discount. It is now $375, and the savings card takes it down to $332, i've heard there is some mysterious coupon that brings it back down to the regular just under $100 but pharmacies in WNY suck as far as customer service and i have yet to be able to fill my perscription since it's so unacceptably overpriced now...

anyone have any luck with finding discount coupons or anything from websites?

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all cheap Dextros are going or gone. will they come back? I don't know. i don't think it is capitalists rather i believe government is the culprit. regarding gouging- it may be and it may not be- we the people do not know anything. agencies and groups of all kinds have an interest in keeping a population ignorant and addicted. for me, i guess i'll go to private chemists. John acton said in a letter to a friend about 1900 that "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Acton, a devout catholic was referring to the pope in his letter, but the maxim applies wherever power accumulates. To me, this means that all government is evil, so the best government is the least government. if you doubt this try negoiating or dealing with pan-faced government (federal, state, or local) employee who views you as an interuption, a number, or a criminal. the political spectrum consists of totalitarian government on the extreme left and anarchy on the extreme right. totalitarians like Mao, Hitler, Ho, Pol Pot, Stalin, Tito, et al were all socialists. anarchy is not much better, but anarchy is better than totalitarians. the best place to be is just to the left of anarchy. this condition enacts and enforces as few laws as possible to protect citizens from crime and still allow free trade between buyer and seller. once freedom is lost and it is lost, it is difficult to regain. good luck everyone.

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If you take you prescription to CVS and tell them you are paying out of pocket. If you then say I know you have a coupon or something that brings the price down to just under $50. My script is for 60 30 milligrams. They do iy for me all the time. Just be nice and polite im sure they will help you out

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My friend who works in Kroger pharmacy told me to go to dextroamphetamine.com for a coupon. I did and there is one for 85% off your next purchase of that drug. They also offer a free card that will give you up 75% of certain drugs. :)

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teva controls their WAC price... companies can take reasonable price increase, which are regualated. Pharmacy companies decide with mark up they will charge. WAC price is what the pharmaceutical companies charge to buyers. Pharmacies then decide what drugs they want to make a profit on. Some they can sell for $4 to gain your business over another pharmacy... and decide to charge whatever they want on medications to stay competitive and still make money. Dont blame pharmaceutical companies!

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