Posted by Neal on September 13, 2008, at 1:47:12
In reply to Re: Does anyone have the original buprenorphine st » Crotale, posted by yxibow on June 23, 2008, at 2:10:16
I have taken Suboxone 8mgs/day for the last 2 years for unipolar depression. Opioids were just about the only things in a doctor's kit for "melancholia" from 10,000BCE until about 1950, so I thought I'd give it a try, Bush drug hysteria notwithstanding.
I found that it worked quite well when taken with other ADs. It helps with sleep, chronic pain, and anxiety espessially.
The main reason it's legal is that there's no "rush" from injecting and it's of course only a partial agonist. So it's used primarily for drug addiction.
I think there's a population of depressed people who could be helped by this drug, but the general drug hysteria generated in this country makes it hard for doctors to provide it for depression if they feel they're laying their license on the line.
Some people on this board are claiming that they got their docs to write scripts, but I found it hard, at least two years ago. Maybe things are changing for the better.
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