Posted by linkadge on April 24, 2006, at 9:37:44
In reply to Re: Parnate.......... » james_glasgow, posted by Meri-Tuuli on April 24, 2006, at 4:19:36
Its been a big hangup and source of significant arument. Ever since people had the feeling that they could not stop things like paroxetine dispite their strong belief that the illness had lived out its course, people have argued the "non-addictive" definitions of antidepressants.
I guess the hallmark of addiction is in feeling compelled to break with treatment shceduling, dosage and administration in order to give your neucleus accumbens a bit of a kick.
The real test would be to see wheather or not the neucleus accumbens lights up in responce to a one time dose of parnate.
Every AD I've taken made me feel much much worse after the first few doses, but parnate I felt something good right away.
Doctors still claim that antidepressants aren't addictive, and don't produce dependance. In the sence of dose escalation, most people don't escalate SSRI's or TCA's, but people have been known to escalate parnate, amineptine, and perhaps others, and crushing and snorting parnate is consistent with other accounts that I've heard of parante.
****I'm sure its possible to gain theraputic effect from parnate without abusing it****, but when you have that dual effect, its hard to know which effect is doing what. Suppose it pooped out theraputically, then one might still feel that they can get an effect from the recreational side of the drug.
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