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.
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.
…tell them both to visit erowid or wikipedia, and look up cocaine and amphetamine separately. Then, look at vyvanse’s wikipedia page. That type of description is part of the reason why it’s tough for us ADHD folks to get access to our meds.
But that’s a completely different molecule
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetamine
Adderall is practically pharmaceutical street speed. That’s why I got interested that they found a new application for coke again, besides as a numbing agent.
