• SuiXi3D@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    Because I’ve been told by my pharmacy tech wife and my doctor that it is. Or close enough, anyway.

    EDIT: It turns out my ignorance of chemistry is enough to get me downvoted. In any case, thank you to the kind souls that have educated me on the matter.

    • DRx@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Well, as a pharmacist whose been stable on 50mg of vyvanse for more than 3 years, your wife and Doc are both incorrect…

      Both are stimulants, yes, but

      Vyvanse is an amphetamine and works to produce more neurotransmitters you don’t already have.

      Cocaine is a reuptake inhibitor… thus preventing the breakdown of neurotransmitters you do already have.

      While fundamentally they may look like they’re doing the same thing, they are in fact 2 totally different mechanisms. Furthermore, in neurotransmitter depletion the effects of cocaine will severely diminish, where as amphetamines will thrive.