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I'm looking for Dexedrine Brand Name but all they have are BARR Generics...

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BASEjumper

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Hi. I am prescribed 120 x 5mgs IR Dexedrine tablets a month and my local pharmacy only has the generic version and they are Barr. I have done a lot of searches here and research on the internet and I have heard that BARR brand is less effective than brand name or even other generic brands. Is this true? Is there any data to back it up or is it just by personal experience?

Thank you!
 
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Currently in the United States, Barr is the only manufacturer of dexedrine left. Ethex called it quits a couple of months ago and 6 months before that both Mallinkrodt (dexedrine) and Shire (dextrostat) stopped production. Brand name dexedrine by SmithKlineFrench is available only in Canada and distributed by Palladin. Brand dexedrine hasn't been available in the USA since approximately 2006.

Most users don't care for Barr as a generic so for the most part, people with prescriptions for dexedrine are not happy campers at the moment.
 
When i was taking 15mg spansules, I found there was a difference between the GSK spansule and the Barr spansule. The barr was a lot more speedy feeling, felt kinda dirty while the GSK spansule was exactly as I expected dexedrine to feel. Smooth and calm, no come up or come down just a gentle crescendo and decrescendo.

I have a bottle of those old GSK spansules left, I think I might eat one right now actually now that I think of it :)

I had to pull more than a few legs to get my hands on them though. They tried telling me they were discontinued but I looked it up and GSK spansules have not been discontinued according to the FDA. The IR might be though.

Try going to addforums.com and asking there, they have a lot of good folks on there who can give you a straight answer. They discuss this issue a lot.
 
BASEjumper said:
Hi. I am prescribed 120 x 5mgs IR Dexedrine tablets a month and my local pharmacy only has the generic version and they are Barr. I have done a lot of searches here and research on the internet and I have heard that BARR brand is less effective than brand name or even other generic brands. Is this true? Is there any data to back it up or is it just by personal experience?

Thank you!
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no, there is no data to back it up other than the paranoid ramblings of drug abusers. in the last year I have had ethex, mallinkrodt, and barr and there is no fucking difference between them.
 
AdOgG0911 said:
no, there is no data to back it up other than the paranoid ramblings of drug abusers. in the last year I have had ethex, mallinkrodt, and barr and there is no fucking difference between them.
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Begging your pardon, but in the last year I have also had ethex, mallinkrodt and barr and there is a big fucking difference between them. A bunch of other users taking them medically who are neither drug abusers nor paranoid seem to agree with me. So please, if you wish to speak insultingly of other peoples opinions and experiences, please realize that you are not God's sole gift to the universe in the respect that only your opinion counts on things.

For me, ethex and mallinkrodt worked smoothly and effeciently and I loved 'em. Barr feels awful to the degree that I won't continue taking dex if that is all that is available. The problem is not the quantity of active ingredient - it seems plenty strong enough - it just makes most people feel like crap.

Every person is different, and you may experience no difference. Other users however, find the barr brand to often cause headaches, be abrasive on the stomach, and generally feels to be a much "dirtier" drug than either of the other two listed. This may be in part to the way that the raw d-amphetamine that they are using is manufactured and processed, and it is certainly aided the different fillers and binders, the chief one being colloidal silicon dioxide. This is an abrasive material that has no place in food materials

Besides being used as a gelling agent, it also has the following uses:

Refractories

· High temperature binders

· Investment casting - used in moulds

· An abrasive - for polishing silicon wafers

· Carbonless paper

· Catalysts

· Abrasion resistant coatings

· Increasing friction - used to coat waxed floors, textile fibres and railway tracks to promote traction

· Antisoiling – fills micropores to prevent take up of dirt and other particles into textiles

· Surfactant – used for flocculating, coagulating, dispersing, stabilising etc

· Absorbent

This is not a good product to put in one's body and there have been links establishing it as a source of tissue damage by having the abrasive particles mix in with tissue and reside in nodes beneath the skin.

I believe that it also finds its way into the blood and irritates the nerves running throughout the affected tissue and is at least partially responsible for the "dirty" feeling you get from taking this drug. To me, it feels like my blood has sand and acidic chemicals in it.
 
I called my pharmacy and they said that it would take a few days to get the brand names in. Is this eve possible?
 
I've been on Dexedrine XR for years and have generally gotten the Barr generic, but when it was available, I got the Mallinkrodt one. The only difference seemed to be pharmacokinetic--the Mallinkrodt spansule version had a more gradual, continuous release whereas the Barr has a little more initial release. I've never tried an honest-to-god Dexedrine brand dextroamphetamine spansule, but considering that all of the products are dextroamphetamine, I'm betting the difference is just another minor pharmacokinetic one.

To me, it feels like my blood has sand and acidic chemicals in it.
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Wow, I can't say I've ever gotten that feeling from any compound, generic or brand--I'm not even sure what "having sand in [one's] blood" is supposed to feel like.
 
I've had dextrostat in the past few years but the past 6 months i've been gettin the BARR 10mg IR. I just filled my script 2 days ago and got barr. I never noticed a difference. I take maybe 10-20mg a day, about 2 weeks straight then nothing for 2 weeks. Im rxed 4 and 1/2 10mg a day.
 
I have only taken the 5 mg ir tablets - have never tried the spansules. When SKF stopped the brand 5mg tablets, I know the spansules were still available but I thought they had eventually stopped those too. Not really sure though - people in ADD/ADHD forums are saying Barr is all that is available now, and that has been my experience. If you find anything else, it might just be old stock.

Everybody is definitely different, and it may be my medical problems that cause some of my reaction to the Barr tablets - no way of knowing. I just know that my body sure doesn't like them much. :(

There is another thread here in OD where the title describes the effects of shooting a certain brand of dope as being like "fiberglass in one's veins, causing itchy feeling blood".
That actually described my feeling on Barr brand dex pretty accurately. The other brands feel smooth and comfortable by comparison.
 
stringtheory said:
Begging your pardon, but in the last year I have also had ethex, mallinkrodt and barr and there is a big fucking difference between them. A bunch of other users taking them medically who are neither drug abusers nor paranoid seem to agree with me. So please, if you wish to speak insultingly of other peoples opinions and experiences, please realize that you are not God's sole gift to the universe in the respect that only your opinion counts on things.

For me, ethex and mallinkrodt worked smoothly and effeciently and I loved 'em. Barr feels awful to the degree that I won't continue taking dex if that is all that is available. The problem is not the quantity of active ingredient - it seems plenty strong enough - it just makes most people feel like crap.

Every person is different, and you may experience no difference. Other users however, find the barr brand to often cause headaches, be abrasive on the stomach, and generally feels to be a much "dirtier" drug than either of the other two listed. This may be in part to the way that the raw d-amphetamine that they are using is manufactured and processed, and it is certainly aided the different fillers and binders, the chief one being colloidal silicon dioxide. This is an abrasive material that has no place in food materials

Besides being used as a gelling agent, it also has the following uses:

Refractories

· High temperature binders

· Investment casting - used in moulds

· An abrasive - for polishing silicon wafers

· Carbonless paper

· Catalysts

· Abrasion resistant coatings

· Increasing friction - used to coat waxed floors, textile fibres and railway tracks to promote traction

· Antisoiling – fills micropores to prevent take up of dirt and other particles into textiles

· Surfactant – used for flocculating, coagulating, dispersing, stabilising etc

· Absorbent

This is not a good product to put in one's body and there have been links establishing it as a source of tissue damage by having the abrasive particles mix in with tissue and reside in nodes beneath the skin.

I believe that it also finds its way into the blood and irritates the nerves running throughout the affected tissue and is at least partially responsible for the "dirty" feeling you get from taking this drug. To me, it feels like my blood has sand and acidic chemicals in it.
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^ Amphetamine induced
 
get mallinkrodt "brand generics" as far as i know they were being manufactured last year (although mallinkrodt stopped making generics a few years back). They're about 15% cheaper than brand, and your insurance may not cover them, but back when i was special ordering them through my pharmacy - boy those were the days. barr is not even comparable.
 
bridgestoaccess.com is a prescription plan and carry brand dexedrine. GLAXOSMITHKLINE is the manufacturer and my co pay is 10 bucks. i just started brand name and they are 10 mg spansules for narcolepsy , had since 12 and am 35, let me just say WOW what a difference !! I actually feel normal. go to the website sign up print out the necessary papers and voucher and use your doctor as an advocate to call bridgestoaccess go to pharmacy and get yr brand name(pharmacy may then have to order it) for a single person can make 2ithin 2000 dollars a month. Your doctor can make a copy of your employment ( how much you make) . This is way worth the bit of hassle to do it and you will feel normal. Ive tried every generic there is , nothing compares to brand dexedrine. It should be illegal to carry generic dexedrine. It doesnt work , feel high too fast and then crash and feel like you have to pop another pill. Shame on them. I also take 5 mg in the afternoon. well I dont feel like i have to , since being on these beauties!! I didnt have any sleeping attacks, no mood swings from being tired, I felt like myself.
 
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Barr is the only manufacturer of Dex IR tablets in the US. In Canada, you can get GSK.
 
The generics suck - I haven't found any that work even close to the brand name and had to switch to adderall which doesn't work that well either. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to have been on something that worked for 7 years and now it's not available anymore. If I were rich enough I'd buy the patent from GSK and make it myself!
 
Ever heard of the placebo effect?

If you know it is a cheap knockoff, of course you have convinced yourself that it won't work as well before you even take it.

Same drug, same effect, POSSIBLY different release mechanism/onset but same effect.
 
So for those of you that say barr generics aren't as good.....

Would you rather have 120 x 5mg barr IR dextroamphetamine,
...................or 40 x 10mg name brand Dexedrine Spansules?
 
Riemann Zeta said:
I've never tried an honest-to-god Dexedrine brand dextroamphetamine spansule
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They are wonderful. ;) Very prevalent in high school, these days nonexistent. I have tried the generics too and I personally have found no difference in effects or onsets between honest-to-God GSK Dexedrine (SKF back when I tried them) and it's equivalents, both IR and XR. But these days I only take amphetamines in small prescribed doses. I just don't dig on speed any more, maybe this is the reason...if I took an abusive dose and got high, maybe I would feel a difference. But I don't know.
By the way, for all you speed freaks, methamphetamine produces a much more profound sense of well-being and a euphoria similar to cocaine, without much peripheral side effects like jitteryness, anxiety, etc. ...but if you are a speed freak you probably know that.
 
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