Posted by ed_uk2010 on December 11, 2011, at 12:55:04
In reply to Lou's reply-psytlrknro » Phillipa, posted by Lou Pilder on December 11, 2011, at 11:10:49
>Now Chuck Berry and Mick Jagger have different songs, but they both contain the same ingrediants in the music and it's still rock-an-roll to me.
That's nice, but you're missing the point :)
Olanzapine has very little affinity for benzodiazepine receptors in the brain - the affinity is well over 1000 times less than the affinity which it has for the receptors involved with its mechanism of actions eg. D2, 5-HT2 etc. This means that the binding of olanzapine to benzodiazepine receptors at therapeutic doses is negligible. *Clinically*, olanzapine is NOT a benzodiazepine.
Withdrawal of olanzapine can certainly produce very unpleasant symptoms. The point is that it is not benzo withdrawal, it is different.
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