{"id":27881,"date":"2023-05-18T18:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/?p=23018"},"modified":"2024-06-05T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T01:17:20","slug":"episode-81-the-adderall-shortage-looking-at-americas-mental-health-crisis-with-michael-a-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/podcasts\/episode-81-the-adderall-shortage-looking-at-americas-mental-health-crisis-with-michael-a-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 81. The Adderall Shortage: Looking at America\u2019s Mental Health Crisis with Michael A. Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/speechboy71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael A. Cohen<\/a>&nbsp;is a columnist for MSNBC, a fellow for the Eurasia Group Foundation and is&nbsp;the publisher of the newsletter&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/truthandcons.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth and Consequences<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;He also has ADHD and is one of the many Americans who has struggled to fill his Adderall prescription over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 29th, he published the opinion piece,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/adderall-shortage-the-health-crisis-no-ones-talking-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;The Adderall Shortage is the Mental Health Crisis No One&#8217;s Talking About&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;on The Daily Beast, sharing parts of his own story intertwined with a handful of interviews he did, including a conversation with Rep. Abigal Spanberger (D-VA). Spanberger is one of the only members of Congress to acknowledge the shortage and the strain it is putting on people right now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael recently sat down with&nbsp;<em>Refocused<\/em>&nbsp;host <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/podcasts\/\" title=\"Lindsay Guentzel\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Lindsay Guentzel<\/a> for a look at what pushed him to write the piece, as well as a look at what he learned while researching and writing the piece.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael A. Cohen discusses the Adderall shortage crisis in his Daily Beast piece, highlighting personal struggles and interviews, including with Rep. Abigail Spanberger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[86,80],"content_type":[38],"class_list":["post-27881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-physical-mental-health","tag-treatment","content_type-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27881"},{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adhdonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=27881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}