Posted by europerep on November 17, 2013, at 5:19:33
In reply to Re: buprenorphine, posted by phidippus on November 16, 2013, at 14:04:32
Suggesting oxycodone instead of buprenorphine, because buprenorphine has an addictive potential, must be a joke. Oxycodone has a far bigger abuse potential, is more addictive and on top of that is more dangerous in an overdose.
I've taken buprenorphine, and when I realized it didn't work for me even at moderately high doses, I slowly tapered off of it and then stopped taking it. Tapering off of buprenorphine was easier than venlafaxine, and not because I was one of those horror cases of venlafaxine discontinuation syndrome. Going off of venlafaxine was relatively easy, buprenorphine was even easier.
Of course this cannot be generalized, and there are indeed a very small number of people who take buprenorphine (usually for opiate addiction) and who find it extremely hard to get off of it. But, if a trial of buprenorphine in depression is warranted (by symptom severity and lack of success with other drugs), the risk of addiction is, in my opinion, a manageable risk.
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