Burprenorphine & Vyvance interaction?
My brother in-law has struggled for decades with opioid addiction but has been on Bur. for a couple years now and it has been helpful! However, in the past couple of months he has been becoming increasingly paranoid including posting on social medial stating that “the medicine is being taken from his body” and there are additional people there when there is not. He is also prescribed 70mg of Vyvance daily. Based on my basic research I saw that there could be side effects from the Vyvance with people with a family of mental illness (specifically schizophrenia), which in his case there is. Personally, I don’t think he was honest with his prescribing doctor(s) for either medication in regard to family history, addiction history or any other current medications. Do we think the paranoia he is experiencing is from taking them both together or is he experiencing some other sort of mental health crisis?
(Please note we have tried to get him evaluated but he refused and at this point “he is not harmful to himself or others” so we are kind of at a loss 😓)