PARENTS FEAR THEIR EIGHT-YEAR-OLD COULD FAIL THE SECOND GRADE IF THE ADDERALL SHORTAGE CONTINUES

SILVER SPRING, MD – Amid the country’s ongoing Adderall shortage, patients who rely on ADHD medication to complete daily tasks are struggling to get through each day.

The shortage has been especially hard for eight-year-old Harry Johnson, whose parents fear that their son might not graduate the second grade if he doesn’t get his medication soon.

“He’s just not himself anymore,” said Harry’s mother, Pamela Johnson, while clutching her husband Craig’s hand as tears streamed down her face. “He thinks the color purple is the color yellow and his teacher says that he is the most disruptive student in their class.”

According to his parents, Harry has always had trouble paying attention to things going on outside of his iPad. However, ever since his doctors prescribed him Adderall when he was four years old, Harry has been an exemplary student in school.

But now, since Harry’s parents haven’t been able to get his medication from their pharmacy for over a month, they say that Harry’s behavior and education have taken a detrimental toll.

“I sat with him the day that we found out he wasn’t going to pass the second grade. He cried in my arms and just kept repeating the same thing over and over, ‘I need my shit, Dad. I need my shit.’ My boy needs his Adderall, and it breaks my heart that we can’t get it for him,” said Craig Johnson.

At press time, school administrators at Harry’s school confirmed with reporters that Harry was enrolled in their summer school program in a last-ditch effort to teach him his primary colors before he is forced to retake the second grade.