Updated daily · snapshot 2026-10-13
Adderall shortage tracker
There is no shortage map, and no honest way to build one from public data. What there is: every manufacturer listing the FDA holds for these medications, the status each one reported, and every change since we started keeping daily copies. 68 of 111 listings report shipping today.
Looking for a map? There isn’t one, and this is the honest reason why: FDA shortage reporting is national and per manufacturer, with no geographic component at all. A map built from it would be showing you detail the data does not contain. Local supply varies pharmacy by pharmacy, and no public dataset covers pharmacy shelves. What follows is the strongest thing the national data actually supports.
Current status
Each bar is that product’s manufacturer listings, split by the status the manufacturer reported to the FDA. Follow a product through to see the individual manufacturers and the package codes to name on the phone.
Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts) IR
7 strengths tracked45 of 73 manufacturer listings report shipping, 9 limited, 19 unavailable. First posted to the FDA database 2022-10-12.
Methylphenidate ER (Concerta-type) ER film (patch)
4 strengths tracked4 of 4 manufacturer listings report shipping. First posted to the FDA database 2025-02-28.
Methylphenidate ER (Concerta-type) ER tablet
7 strengths tracked19 of 34 manufacturer listings report shipping, 9 limited, 6 unavailable. First posted to the FDA database 2023-07-26.
What changed recently
Every status move we have recorded for these products, newest first. Each is dated by the day we saw it in the feed, not the day it happened — we can only ever report what we observed.
What to do with this
The tracker tells you which manufacturers say they are shipping. That matters because it turns a hopeless question into an answerable one: instead of asking a pharmacy whether they have your medication, you can ask whether they can order a named manufacturer’s product, and give them the package code. For a Schedule II medication that distinction is often the whole difference, because the prescription cannot simply be moved somewhere else while you shop around.
Get told when this changes
Watch Adderall and Methylphenidate ER
One email on any day a manufacturer’s reported status changes for any of these medications, at any strength. Free, and nothing on quiet days. To watch one exact strength instead, pick it here.
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Questions about the tracker
Is there an Adderall shortage map?
No, and there cannot be one built from public data. Shortage reporting in the United States is national and per manufacturer — a company tells the FDA whether it is shipping a product across the whole country. Nothing in that dataset is geographic, so any map built from it would be showing you invented detail. Local availability varies by wholesaler and by individual pharmacy, and there is no lawful public feed of pharmacy shelf inventory to map.
What does this tracker actually show?
Every manufacturer listing for these products in the FDA shortage database, the status each manufacturer reported, and every change we have recorded since we started keeping daily copies. We hold 1,580 listings in total as of 2026-10-13. It is a picture of national manufacturer reporting, updated once a day.
How often does it update?
Once a day. We fetch the entire database, compare it against the previous day's copy, and record what moved. The date of the copy this page was built from is printed at the bottom of the page, and nothing here is ever older than that date.
Does a manufacturer reporting it is shipping mean I can get it?
No. It means that company told the FDA it is shipping that product nationally. Your pharmacy buys from a wholesaler, which may be out or on allocation, and may not carry that manufacturer at all. This is the gap between national data and your counter, and no national dataset closes it.
Why does the tracker only cover stimulants?
Because that is where the questions are, and a page that claims to track everything tracks nothing well. Every other drug in the database has its own page with the same data, reachable from the drug index, and the changes log covers the whole feed rather than this subset.
Built from the FDA drug shortage database, fetched 2026-10-13; the feed’s own last update was 2026-10-13. Snapshot e27f223fa484afd5. You can check us against the FDA source, and read what we get wrong.