Posted by missliz on April 12, 2001, at 0:46:23
In reply to Re: Naltrexone, posted by Fred Potter on April 11, 2001, at 0:17:51
> Can I clear up some misunderstanding? I don't think any of us on this thread are advocating the use of morphine-like drugs. Naltrexone, a neutral feeling drug, made me feel euphoric by comparison to depression when my SSRI had pooped out. But euphoria by running over mountains yes! Mind you this can get self-centred when carried to extremes. That's why I said, "socially responsible". A beer with friends is also the kind of social euphoria I mean, although Naltrexone won't let you enjoy it of course.
From what I've read in this thread, some people think painkillers are legitimate treatment for mental illness and doctors are ignorant and small minded not to supply them on demand. Dig back and you'll see what I'm referring too. There's a person who seems obsessed with opiate drugs in a way that sounds like a developing junkie to me.
This is disturbing, mostly because when someone so misguided uses a legitimate illness like depression to try and justify her doping it just drags the rest of us down. Psychiatric illness is heavily stigmatized and sufferers are heavily discriminated against as it is. To have a bunch of druggies trying to legitimize their bad habits by trumping up some BS about painkillers and depression just pisses me off.
I've danced with this devil for well over twenty years and seen alot of awful things. Too many of the hospitals are horrible places, outpatient services are pathetic to nonexistant for most of the mentally ill population and insurance coverage for psychiatric services keeps getting cut and cut where it still exists. For all the people who take their meds and work their buts off to get better this pill popping crap is a giant slap in the face. The general population already confuses the depressed and the retarded; should I have to bear the stigma of the dope fiend so little susie can rationalize her problem as depressive illness? I think not.
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