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adhd - Drugs for ADHD
If your insurance or health care system doesn’t cover you for the price of your ADHD medications, treatment can get very expensive. For a month’s supply, the price of the drugs range from $26 for a generic versions of ritalin up to $150 for concerta and Adderal XR. The prices of the timed release versions of the drugs (adderall XR, ritalin LA or Ritalin-SR) are about twice the price of the normal versions.
The reason for this is simple. The standard versions can be made by generic drug companies because the patents have run out. Whereas the timed released version have several more years to run on the patent and so the drug companies can charge what they like for them.
When considering ADHD medication, its worth remembering this is a not a simple course of antibiotics. These a drugs that will be taken for months, if not years, because when you stop taking them the symptoms will return. Consequently the costs will added up, month after month, year after year.
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