Posted by jboud24 on October 26, 2004, at 12:43:42
In reply to Re: Xanax and tolerance: studies available?, posted by steve12 on October 26, 2004, at 7:37:47
I disagree. The doctors are very quick to call it discontinuation syndrome, but I have witnessed drug-seeking behavior for an SSRI, speciffically Lexapro, from an old drug-dealer I used to hang with. He asked me every month if I could spare any Lexapro or if he could buy some off me. He apparently immensely enjoyed the effects of SSRI's. He would pay me like $60 for a half a months worth of pills. And he told me specifically that he liked the feeling it gave him.
It is rediculous to think that psychological addiction cannot occur to SSRI's, this CAN and DOES happen to almost every known psychoactive drug in the pharmacoepia. If you want to call the physical withdrawal a 'discontinuation syndrome', then more power to you. God knows that's all you'll hear the doctors tell you.
Just look at the statement that they put under anti-depressants in the packaging: "Although studies in x animal has shown that this drug has no potential for abuse, it is unknown as to the extent a CNS active drug will be abused or diverted after it is released on the market.
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