I don't believe the hype. Had plenty of generics, plenty of brand throughout the years. I have severe ADHD and am on a daily dose of only 20mg (which I was going to change to 30mg because Barr was getting very hard to take @20mg per day), but since getting "the new pink adderall": which by the way, if you're new to adderall or prescription drugs in general, every few months there's a huge hyper manic scare that gets sent in capital letters all over the internet ADDERALL USERS: AVOID COPHARM, AVOID SHIRE, AVOID BARR, WATCH OUT FOR THE NEW PINK PILLS!
It's chain-letter shite basically. 80% compliance is huge for amphetamine, a salt-based product which is therefore incredibly bio-available (unlike the real change that's happening with other prescription drugs such as oxycontin, which aren't as bio-available and minor changes in formulation can change a heck of a lot more than metabolization).
Seeing a bunch of people complain about something new and strange (CorPharm's takeover is obviously a government plan to kill everyone who takes adderall) that has happened to their drug of choice. Unfortunately for oxycodone/contin users generics can have a hugely unfavorable effect due to the way they metabolize, and many people use this real tragedy to scare other prescription drug-takers. I'm not saying it's not possible that CorPharm and Shire are involved in some pharma-takeover mutiny anti-christ resurrection, but what I am going to say is this:
Every time a new kind of pill (shape, size, color, or imprint) is released it is instantly convicted of being the cause of every headache and spell of diarrhea that happens to the person for the rest of their life. Conveniently for people who spread these rumors of fear, most people who get an unfamiliar script log on to some pill identification site where you can read about all the strychnine and rat poison mixed into this year's favorite batch to pick on.
This year it happens to be the pink adderall. Next year it'll be another color, shape, size, or imprint that is rumored to be both inherently dangerous and wildly corrupt. It's just paranoia, and unfortunately people love to spread paranoia and there are plenty of believers out there.
So, I have tried ever single kind of adderall, and although it's subjective, my experience with these has been identical. There's always a period of getting used to the new formulation, but it is usually a positive upgrade. Even though it merely metabolizes differently with each new formulation, this can manifest into "strange side-effects" from experience to experience. I'm sure everyone remembers the first time they got diarrhea from adderall and thought they were being poisoned, or the all-too-familiar headache..but really, we all know that the side-effects that people are freaking out about have been there since it was formulated, just in varying degrees. Most subsequent formulations are an attempt to perfect the compound and take away such noticable side-effects, not necessarily to "change the experience" or "take away from the experience" for profit.
We're not living in India or China. There are great regulations in America; unfortunately oxycontin brand has gotten away with doing everything they can to drive the price of brands up, which has resulted in some funny misdoings and definitely some terrible batches.
But this is a completely different matter, biochemically. The way that it absorbs has everything to do with all these "nasty" side-effects.
Freak out if you like, throw a party and tell all your friends to avoid such and such a company's adderall because they're pissing in the vats, but don't try to back up a claim by saying "look what all these people are saying on the internet...it must be true!!!!"
These are *different* but not better or worse. Although, frankly, for me the new pinks are working out marvelously and I haven't had a better formulation with fewer side-effects since the first brand dose I had years ago. Everyone is different, though, and unfortunately some of you are going to get the diarrhea from hell and exploding headaches that *Barr's* particular formulation was giving *me*.
These side-effects will all pass, for most as quickly as they did when they had such problems during their first few doses. And next year's catchword will be "remember those pink adderall, well that ain't nothin compared to the new tylenol formulas!!"
Just bizarre, man. This stuff is like clock-work. I often wonder who benefits from spreading these half-truths...
Edit: Also, forgot to mention, for all you out there snorting these and complaining: stop snorting them. They are very dense and much harder to snort (probably one of the reasons for a new formula) and doing so will end in disappointment and probably a lot of shit talking because they don't powder and break apart like those shitty Barr's. If you must insufflate, please make sure that it is completely broken up into the finest powder possible and hope for the best, but don't get upset because they're not powder like the others...expect to see more changes like this. And I would hardly say that, even with its bioavailability and quick absorption time in the nasal cavity, these incredibly dense CorPharm pills will produce even half of the effects of the easily snorted powder pills (Barr, Ramboxy/Sandoz, etc.). Those things were made for your nose, and frankly the Barr formulation is too speedy (no clarity whatsoever sometimes for me) and as such have far more addictive potential. I mean they practically look like they're going to fall apart into a line when you put them on a tabletop. I think a lot of formulas in the last few years have been aimed at delivering the speed to keep all the addicts going, fortunately for people who need these things to think clearly they're starting to focus on what's important, or so it seems.
Again, all my experience is subjective (but extensive). Pharmaceutical companies are evil, but they've not yet stopped making medicine in favor of sugar pills that pass as such.