"It's been about three weeks to get medication," a woman told ABC News. ByDiane Macedo, Brendan Rand, and Doc Louallen October 23, 2024, 2:11 PM As the CDC reveals a surge in Americans with ADHD, many are reporting difficulty in accessing care, including long waits for evaluations, missed diagnoses, and struggles to find medications that are in short supply. Raquel Gonçalves Lubbers, 47, says for her, those challenges date back to childhood.