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Is Adderall XR in shortage?
No. As of our check of the FDA drug shortage database on 2026-08-26, there is no listing for mixed amphetamine salts, extended release from any manufacturer, so Adderall XR is not currently in shortage according to the FDA.
Why this page exists. The question gets asked constantly, and until now this site answered it with silence — which reads as “we have nothing on your medication” rather than the truth, which is that the database does not cover this product. What follows is what it does cover for this ingredient, and why the two are different.
Why Adderall XR is not in the database
The FDA lists the immediate-release tablet form of mixed amphetamine salts — the generic of Adderall IR — and has done throughout. The extended-release capsule is a different product with its own manufacturers and its own supply, and no manufacturer of it is currently reporting a shortage to the FDA.
The FDA shortage database is organised by product, not by brand. A listing is one active ingredient, in one dosage form, from one manufacturer, with one package code. That is why the answer to “is my medication in shortage” can be yes and no at the same time depending on which version of it you hold, and why we will not round that off for you.
We searched today’s copy of the database for mixed amphetamine salts, extended release and found no matching listing from any manufacturer. Snapshot 2026-08-26.
What the FDA does list nearby
These are the related products that are in the shortage database today, with the numbers as they stand in the same snapshot this page was built from.
| Product | Listings | Reported shipping | Supply |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts) IR | 73 | 49 | 49 of 73 manufacturer listings report shipping, 5 limited, 19 unavailable |
A manufacturer reporting that it is shipping a product is a statement about national supply, never about your pharmacy’s shelf.
If your pharmacy cannot fill it
A drug being absent from the shortage database does not mean the prescription is easy to fill. For controlled medications especially, the binding constraint is usually local: which wholesaler your pharmacy buys from, what allocation it is under this month, and which manufacturer’s product it stocks at all. Those are answerable questions, and the answers come from the pharmacy rather than from any database.
Questions people ask about Adderall XR
Is Adderall XR in shortage right now?
Not according to the FDA. We checked the full shortage database on 2026-08-26 and found no listing for mixed amphetamine salts, extended release. That is the FDA's view of national manufacturer reporting, and it is not the same as your pharmacy having it — a drug can be absent from the shortage database and still be hard to get locally.
Why does the FDA list some forms of this drug and not others?
The FDA lists the immediate-release tablet form of mixed amphetamine salts — the generic of Adderall IR — and has done throughout. The extended-release capsule is a different product with its own manufacturers and its own supply, and no manufacturer of it is currently reporting a shortage to the FDA. The FDA tracks shortages per product — a specific ingredient in a specific dosage form from a specific manufacturer — not per brand name. Two products that a patient thinks of as the same medication can sit on opposite sides of that line.
My pharmacy cannot fill Adderall XR. What does that mean if it is not in shortage?
It usually means a local supply problem rather than a national one: your pharmacy's wholesaler may be out or on allocation, or the pharmacy may not stock that manufacturer at all. A national shortage listing is only one reason a prescription does not get filled, and for controlled medications it is often not the main one. The call checklist covers what to ask.
Will this page change if the FDA adds Adderall XR?
Yes, and it cannot fail to. This page's claim is re-checked against the database on every build; if mixed amphetamine salts, extended release appears in the feed, the build stops and the drug gets a full data page instead of this one. We would rather break the build than serve a confidently wrong page.
Built from the FDA drug shortage database, fetched 2026-08-26; the feed’s own last update was 2026-08-25. Snapshot 021d4dfd5d742d95. You can check us against the FDA source, and read what we get wrong.