Posted by anxiety66me on March 3, 2004, at 15:17:48
In reply to Re: Paxil and Alcohol, posted by nicky847 on March 2, 2004, at 11:31:49
The same thing happened to me. Tell your doc. My doc was shocked. He said that it is probably very underreported. Check out the book "Prozac or Panacea." I have written many posts and responded to many on here regarding SSRI's and alcohol. I have recently sworn off all SSRI's. Doc said I seem to be genetically unable to handle them w/out having a craving to drink. It has something todo with the makeup of DNA. Smoking was also increased by a lot. Do a search at the bottom of this page for SSRI's, alcohol, Paxil or (what I was recently on) Effexor. There was a link which someone providid that I found helpful. Get off this drug if you are drinking. Alcohol kills brain cells and makes people do stupid things to get them in trouble. Why increase the chances of this??
Here is some things have received from my research:
Thank you for your e-mail to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIMH conducts and supports research and distributes information on mental health and mental disorders.
Information on medications can be found in our Medications booklet at: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/medmenu.cfm. Included are descriptions of mental illnesses and the medications prescribed for them.
For information on your specific topic of antidepressant and increased craving of nicotine or alcohol, you may wish to try contacting the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a part of the NIH at:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 5213
Bethesda, MD 20892-9561
Phone: (301)-443-1124
Email: Information@lists.nida.nih.gov
Website:http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDAHome.html
We also suggest you search on MedLine Plus and PubMed, services of the National Library of Medicine. MedLine Plus provides information on numerous health topics. You may access MedLine Plus at: http://medlineplus.gov. PubMed is a searchable database of over 11 million scientific research abstracts and citations. You may access PubMed online at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed.
We hope this information is helpful to you.
Information Center
National Institute of Mental Health
E-mail: nimhinfo@nih.gov
Web site: http://www.nimh.nih.gov
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· MedLine Plus http://medlineplus.gov
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· Clinical Trials Information http://clinicaltrials.gov
Provides information on federally funded and other clinical trials
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