Posted by TSA West on January 23, 2002, at 23:53:57
In reply to For some alcohol is medicine...How to sort it out?, posted by Mr. Scott on January 23, 2002, at 22:48:50
Thanks for posting Mr. Scott
One of these days your liver will deteriorate from the drinks and it will be difficult to metabolize psychiatric medications, thus creating more side-effects and less efficacy:
TABLE 6.6 — Effect of Liver Disease on SSRI Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics {***Single-dose**}
Product/Average Half-life/Cirrhosis Patients
Citalopram 1.5 days 3.5 days
Fluoxetine 2 days 7 days
Fluvoxamine 15 hours 24 hours
Norfluoxetine 7 days 12 days
Paroxetine 12 hours 20 hours
Sertraline 1 day 2 daysFrom: http://www.preskorn.com/cgi-bin/sp.pl?words=fluvoxamine&wt=be&bl=an&d=/books/ssri_s6.html
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