In a new report, experts from the Milken Center for Public Health suggested that drug shortages in late 2022 stemmed from hospitals and households “panic-buying" medications.
Parents, pharmacists, and pediatricians have scrambled for months to find antibiotics for children amid one of the worst winters for respiratory illnesses, strep throat, and ear infections. Children's fever reducers, in particular, were missing from the shelves of pharmacies for weeks. It shouldn't be so hard to find common generic medicines.
Shortages of drugs like Adderall that is used to treat ADHD and diabates medicine Ozempic are worsening in the United States, and experts see no clear solution. Unexpected demand spikes, manufacturing issues, and limited ingredient supplies have all contributed to the scarcity