Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on February 26, 2014, at 16:00:25 [reposted on February 28, 2014, at 2:20:08 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Buprenorphine - Freedom of speech - Why not? » LostBoyinNC45, posted by SLS on February 26, 2014, at 14:45:05
I have no personal "stake" regarding that. My beef with "bupe for TRD" lies in the fact it is an ad hoc treatment for which there is poor scientific understanding of. And also I dont like the fact that bupe is controlled and physically addictive, to me that makes a bad option for TRD. Also, as I have mentioned multiple times, you cant drive a vehicle legally while taking the stuff.
Finally, going back to the ad hoc treatment part, "bupe for depression" is not formally FDA approved for mood problems. And ANYTIME you go around asking for narcotics, you will be suspected by the medical community as a controlled drug seeker. Which is a really, really, really bad thing to have written down in your psychiatric and medical records.
If the FDA suddenly approves "bupe for TRD" in the future, I will change my attitude about it. Until then, to hell with bupe. Find another way, science, Im sick of psychiatry's ad hoc, throw sh*t together approach. I never did like it and still dont. Last week I read on the news some researchers had discovered a biological marker of a predictor of depression in young men, they were doing swipes of the insides of teenage boys mouths and measuring the cortisol levels. The researchers claim the cortisol levels were elevated in some and was a medical predictor of future depression.
I'd like to see more stuff like that, respectable hard science stuff and it pushes clinical depression into the "its a real illness" arena. If it gets pushed into the "its a real illness" arena, then I get more respect from society as a depressed person. Otherwise, its "just psychological b*llsh*t, pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
A bunch of people refuse to acknowledge mental illness because of the lack of science behind it. Things will never change until that part is forced to change.
Eric
> What is your personal stake in forbidding me from discussing the use of buprenorphine to treat TRD?
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