Posted by rjlockhart37 on October 21, 2015, at 0:30:53
In reply to Re: Effexor Drug addiction, posted by Lamdage22 on October 20, 2015, at 10:32:03
this is how i see it, if i don't take prozac i will start to emotionally sink in the following days, it gets harder to function and have heavy emotions and sluggish, but see antidepressants are not narcotics, and there not considered drugs of abuse (at least for SSRI's, and wellbutrin, effexor)
they alter ways on the nuerotransmitter levels, but there not a drug that gives like a pleasure like opiates, stimulants, or basically a drug that produces drug liking to take more.......
scenario: you go to a pharmancy and you tell them your low on your antidepressant, there less likey to be hesitant than to do that with xanax or controlled substances......they don't loan those out because there federally controlled because there known to be abused and cause addiction......
with antidepressants there not drugs which get you high, but they do still have some depedency issues when there discontinued but it's not the same with controlled substances.....that's why you see people going to getting treated for being on controlled substances and they use less likely substances, say someone is depedent on methamphetamine and can't function and has major depression from discontinuation, wellbutrin and effexor are known to be used for that condition.....because it produces a small effect, but not the euphoria the meth produced........
so it's confusing but there not the same as controlled substances in causing addiction symptoms
not a genius but understand pain
"unheard pain is told through good company
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