I am a graduate student who was diagnosed with adhd as a child. There was a massive shortage of pretty much every adhd medication on the market (minus the most expensive extended release vyvanse) that lasted from late 2011 well into 2012. As you can imagine, for someone who has taken medication since childhood in order to function like a normal person, this was extremely frustrating. It made me angry to see all of the articles cropping up about college students using adhd meds to gain an ‘edge’. These medications do not give those of us who truly need them an ‘edge’. They simply bring us to the level of the average student, so that our deficient attention spans do not keep us from our goals. During the shortage, I realized that the number of students taking the medication, who don’t need it to function normally, was likely the reason why I was unable to obtain the medicine that up until that point I’d been taking since childhood. I cannot even tell you how incredibly frustrating it was. I am hoping we don’t see another shortage anytime in the near future.