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Re: LINKADGE » Tesssi

Posted by Chairman_MAO on May 28, 2004, at 22:54:16

In reply to Re: LINKADGE, posted by Tesssi on May 28, 2004, at 22:24:10

A robot programmed by drugs? I feel you are projecting feelings you're having toward yourself onto someone else. I do not understand why you're so callous toward someone who's done you no wrong simply because they mentioned "Effexor".

Here's a lesson in pharmacology 101: drugs have effects. The brain gets used to said effects after a period of time. Is it rational to expect everything to snap back to normal instantly after the withdrawl of a drug which takes 4-6 weeks to produce its net effect? Both sides of the antidepressant withdrawl debate are whacked! How a medical doctor presumed competent enough to prescribe drugs could discount patient reports of withdrawl symptoms is beyond me. And how could someone not know that constant use of a drug induces some sort of dependence? It's intuitive! "What goes up, must come down!"

I feel the doctors are way more at fault here, for obvious reasons, but that it is important for people to know that just because it doesn't get you high, doesn't mean it doesn't induce dependence! This is what the TV commercials euphemistically hint at when they say "not habit forming", and no one in this debate ever comes out and says it.


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