Hundreds of drugs are in short supply around the U.S., pharmacists warn

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Most worrisome gaps involve cancer chemotherapy drugs, ER medications and and therapies for ADHD.

A growing number of drugs are in short supply around the U.S., according to pharmacists. In the first three months of the year, there were 323 active medication shortages, surpassing the previous high of 320 shortages in 2014, according to a survey by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Utah Drug Information Service. It also amounts to the most shortages since the trade group started keeping track in 2001.'All drug classes are vulnerable to shortages.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said last fall that more than a dozen manufacturers planned to hike production of the drug, which has been in short supply since October 2022, but the problem persists, the pharmacist group found. 'Ongoing national shortages of therapies for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder also remains an issue for clinicians and patients,' they said.

 

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