Posted by 4WD on February 27, 2009, at 1:35:21
In reply to Re: The lowering Nardil after remission myth (+oth » 4WD, posted by Sigismund on February 23, 2009, at 19:53:10
> >only for addiction and chronic pain
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> You *are* addicted, which you can show by declining to reduce your dose.
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> But maybe you would have to be treated by some special outfit?Of course I'm addicted. Just like I'm addicted to Nardil and Geodon and Xanax. I'd decline reducing my dose of any of those except the Nardil which I'd love to lower. But I'm addicted to the Suboxone in a different way. It takes away my depression and gives me energy and motivation, which I haven't experienced without the use of Percocet or Lortab or some narcotic for years now. And the difference with Suboxone is that it is impossible to get high on it. I don't experience any high at all. It's designed so that you DON'T get high. It's only a partial agonist but is also an atagonist at the opiod receptors. And it had naloxone in it, which means that if I were to try taking some Percocet of something, it would do me no good. It blocks the effect of true full agonist narcotics.
So yes, I'm addicted. But I'd rather be addicted to Suboxone than to 100mg of Percocet a day, wouldn't you?
Marsha
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