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Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 21, 2011, at 4:05:10
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression, posted by JohnLA on October 20, 2011, at 23:29:42
I read that suicide would become the second killer in the USA back in the early 2000's I believe, but just search; suicide, 2020, WHO (World Health Organization). I know it stunned me to hear this way back then too, but WHO has an excellent track record however they come up with stats either from increasing results of death records (they know the true results like a pathologist does unlike the public) or some other means. You never hear about suicides (My neighbor lost his job two years ago, wrapped himself up in bubble plastic so blood wouldn't get all over and put a pistol to his head and shot himself dead-It was not published and he was a well known realtor but the family didn't want the stigma-his son killed himself two weeks earlier and likewise wasn't published) like you hear about deaths from heart attacks or at least not as much /c suicides because of the shame like stigma assocaited with it. There were 100's and more military individuals who have commited suicide while serving in the Afganistan or Iraq War. They didn't publish it though, but I know that there were countless numbers of individuals who took their own life (most PTSD) but the stigma attached with suicide especially a MARINE cannot be published as it would make us look weak. Find a friend of a friend who has been fighting over seas on the front zone and they'll tell you the truth about suicides but it's hush hush around the public.
The brain is so complex and no one might ever truly know the exact mechanism or there could be several reasons or mechanisms for various psychiatric disorders as we do know that environment and genetics have a role and in other disease too like heart disease. In Japan, heart disease is low (low risk genetically, lots of omega 3 fatty acids from seafood, over half the country or a very high number of individuals take CoQ10 as physicians recommend it?), and then the Japanese comes to America and then they start suffering from heart disease. Why?
Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 21, 2011, at 15:40:57
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » Chairman_MAO, posted by europerep on October 20, 2011, at 15:30:27
Yes, most physician look at you crazy if you suggested buprenorphine for TRD even some psychiatrists unless they have their specialized license to RX buprenorphine because they'd know about correlation or previous studies on bup. and mood
I just wished insurance companies would pay for buprenorphine, Subutex or Suboxone as off label like they do plenty of other drugs, ie, Inderal for migraines, trazodone as a hypnotic. I pay money for insurance (maybe I shouldn't buy part D for medicine, but I cannot buy any other insurance because TRD is a pre-existing condition so Medicare is all I can buy), and take 4 meds (Parnate, Klonopn, Subutex, Xyrem (Xyrem for REM sleep disorder), and the insurance company only pays for 1 (Parnate) with th rest denied.
I have osteoarthritis so the insurance approved liquid buprenorphine in the vial, Buprenex and I was going to use it like in the study and put it in an intranasal bottle or put required drops underneath my tongue but the Buprenex Vials total amount required for 4 mg day for a month was 3X as expensive than Subutex 4 mg day/month and I even got Suboxone approved off label for 4 mgs day/month, but Suboxone with insurance payment was still more expensive than Subtex 4 mg day/month for me so I just pay $100 for the Subutex a month. Last spring, 6 months ago when I first started taking Subutex, it cost $70 for 4 mg/month. In several years, I wonder how much I'll be paying? The drug companies almost charge what they want as addicts cannot go witout buprenorphine. I tried going off and got really super depressed this summer and went right back on. Need to start exercising gradually again, and not try to be HEMAN in the gym with running, weights and total workout, but it was the hard workouts that gave me the endorphin antidepressant relieve but only lasted a couple of hours so I had to exercise 2-3X day for effectiveness.
Thanks for all the responses in my previous posts as we all learn from each other to help one another overcome our various problems; just waiting for the day when scientists can at least learn how to control moods completely even if they cannot fix the root cause. Most conventional medicine is treat the symptoms anyways unless you're taking an antibiotic for an infection.
Posted by Chairman_MAO on October 21, 2011, at 18:22:37
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » Chairman_MAO, posted by europerep on October 20, 2011, at 15:30:27
> My point was simply this: pharmacology matters.
>
> It matters when explaining to a doctor why giving buprenorphine to a patient with TRD is not like prescribing morphine, or for that matter, heroin.It matters more to drug-warriors and their sycophants, as well as physicians, because they have to live in fear of having their careers destroyed for prescribing opioids. It is very much like prescribing morphine or heroin. It is a different drug with a different receptor binding profile, but the only thing that matters is how someone feels. If buprenorphine works better, great. If heroin or methadone works better, great.
>It matters when trying to point out why the risk-benefit ratio with buprenorphine is better than with oxycodone or hydromorphone. And lastly, it matters when looking at what future drug treatments could or should look like.
Risk to who? Overdose is difficult; TCAs are more dangerous.
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> That's all I wanted to say.I don't mean to sound snarky, but drugs are drugs, the statist apparatus notwithstanding.
Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 22, 2011, at 2:14:54
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » europerep, posted by Chairman_MAO on October 21, 2011, at 18:22:37
I don't care if a medication is addicting (going off an antidepressant is extremely very harsh too) at this point in my life if it will make me functional as the 100's of other medications/Tx's (antidepressants, other psychiatric labeled and off-labeled meds, small dose patch testosterone, UK meds unavailable in the USA, ECT, acupunture, meditation, spiritual tx John of God in Brazil(crystal colored lights tx, blessed passionflower which is an MAOI herb, supposedly a spirit (physician) enter your body from John of God to your body to fix the underlying cause of DZ-felt good for two month afterword-placebo?), supplements- nutraceuticals, herbs, mega vitamin tx, etc) didn't help, but only sleep deprivation, cold water treatment, and physical exercise helped with MAOI Nardil at the time and I'm sure I'll be on an antidepressant the rest of my life anyways and have been since I was 16y/o except for a two year period when I exercised 4Xs a day for at least 1 hour at a time(7AM,12PM,5PM,10PM) which if one has a career is almost impossible, but I was a pharmaceutical medical science liaison for those two years and one can get away when they want from work being in the field. Working out 4X/day probably was tough overall on my joints hence I have osteoarthritis (OS) at 44y/o (started @40y/o when I had to stop working out and left career) and one generally doesn't start to see OS in patients until their 60's and beyond.
I'm going to try the Butrans (buprenorphine patch)5 mcg/hr = 5 mg Subutex as I'm currently taking 4 mg Subutex a day and insurance will cover Butrans indicated for chronic pain, but not Subutex as I'm not an addict although my Dad(29y/o)died from a heroin/speed injection overdose when I was 5y/o in 1972 which I probably suffered from PTSD as I cried constantly as a child for no reason but my relatives, Mother didn't know why I cried but seeing him drop dead in front of me for a child of 5y/o can be traumatic.
Maybe I had the tendency or lack of opioids if he was using heroin/speed at the point of my conception but family members so no as he was in great shape, hadn't lost muscle, perfomed well at work and it was after I was conceived when he had semi lay-offs in his career and he started injecting heroin /c speed and lost all of his muscle mass, became thin (250pds to 200pds).
If physicians would think about the aspect that someone with treatment resistant depression that's tried everything including ECT that hasn't responded then why not try a low dose of an opioid like buprenorphine if they have their specialized license to RX buprenorphine as not all do from what I understand? Again, unless the patient has deep brain stimulation device implant, they will be on medications the rest of their life anyways.
Best wishes to all
Posted by europerep on October 22, 2011, at 7:19:07
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » europerep, posted by Chairman_MAO on October 21, 2011, at 18:22:37
> It matters more to drug-warriors and their sycophants, as well as physicians, because they have to live in fear of having their careers destroyed for prescribing opioids.
They can have their careers destroyed regardless of whether they can rationally explain in front of an investigative panel the reasons for giving buprenorphine to TRD patients.
> It is very much like prescribing morphine or heroin.
Not according to the people who have done research on this for years and years. I trust them more than internet people.
> Risk to who? Overdose is difficult; TCAs are more dangerous.
Ever heard of that pesky addiction thing? Buprenorphine is a drug with abuse potential, like all other opiates. (The hypocrisy about giving Adderall to anyone with ADHD but not giving buprenorphine to TRD patients is a different story.) I agree that a risk-benefit assessment for bupe in TRD can be positive, but buprenorphine is not Prozac.
Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 22, 2011, at 9:28:04
In reply to opiates and major depression, posted by androog on October 16, 2001, at 16:49:58
Go to the website The National Alliance Of Advocates For Buprenorphine or NAABT.org.
A psychiatrist needs a special DEA to RX buprenorphine and not all treat addiction even though you are looking for buprenorphine for refractory or treatment resistant depression.
The President, Richard Gracer, MD, even agrees that buprenorphine is very helpful in refractory depresed patients and quote said, "I believe that kappa overactivation may be an important cause of depression in many persons with substane abuse as well as the general population, even without the extra stimulation of opiate withdrawal."
"Most of these patients did not have a normal kappa system."
"I believe that these folks are taking the drug as an antidepressant and are not addicted to opiates anymore than othe depressed patients are addicted to Prozac. They need to continue the medication to treat their depression."
Posted by europerep on October 22, 2011, at 10:23:49
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression, posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 22, 2011, at 9:28:04
A psychiatrist in the USA needs a SAMHSA waiver if he or she wants to prescribe buprenorphine *as an opiate replacement*. Any psychiatrist (or physician) who can prescribe narcotics (that group contains almost all regular physicians) can prescribe buprenorphine off-label, for example for TRD.
Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 22, 2011, at 13:30:37
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » CaptainAmerica1967, posted by europerep on October 22, 2011, at 10:23:49
androog - there's a second answer. Hope you find one.
Posted by kirbyw on October 22, 2011, at 22:54:27
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression, posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 22, 2011, at 13:30:37
I have previously posted that vicodin gives me a lift when I am in a depressive episode. Even a small dose such as half of a 5/500 will give me a big lift for 6-8 hours. The problem is that I don't have a steady supply guaranteed, so I am saving the Vicodin from my last rx, in case of a serious episode. My regular meds are parnate, lithium and 2.5 mg of zyprexa. Since adding zyprexa I have put on 10 pounds, which I don't like at all. I can't determine if the zyprexa is helping or not.
Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 23, 2011, at 3:39:45
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression, posted by kirbyw on October 22, 2011, at 22:54:27
> I have previously posted that vicodin gives me a lift when I am in a depressive episode. Even a small dose such as half of a 5/500 will give me a big lift for 6-8 hours. The problem is that I don't have a steady supply guaranteed, so I am saving the Vicodin from my last rx, in case of a serious episode. My regular meds are parnate, lithium and 2.5 mg of zyprexa. Since adding zyprexa I have put on 10 pounds, which I don't like at all. I can't determine if the zyprexa is helping or not.
Why don't you ask your physician straight out for Viocodin if it helps? Life is too short to have it wasted on being depression all of your life or at least that's how I feel. If you've had depression all of your life, you'll be on an antidepressant most likely the rest of your life which are also tough in withdrawal themselves. Some individuals the atypical antipsychotics work well, but they make me severely depressed and I've tried all of them for a good lenght of time. I even tried Amisulpride which in low doses is suppose to work as an antidepressant and anxiolytic, but all made me very tired, fatigued, and sleepy, depressed. Lithium I tried many times, but never felt anytime from it really although it's suppose to be a good prophylactic against depression/anxiety and increases brain derived nerve growth factor; I just worried about my kidney because of excessive workout session (sweating and ions) so whenever I tried it I used Lithium Orotate which is much more bioavailable supposedly and therefore can be used on less smaller of a dose, not sure as conflicting reports. It's over the counter.
Maybe print off a study for your physician like the Bodkin 1995 (Havard Study) or Richard Gracer, MD,President of National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment, NAABT.ORG that wrote an article in March 2007 in the NAABT newletter educationg phyisician on the potential treatment of opioids (smaller doses than addiction) in general but more buprenorphine as it is currently the most potent longest acting kappa antagoinst which he thinks anyone with addiction or depression has a faulty mechanism in general of overactive kappa receptors leading to overactivity of the brain, There's even currently a clinicaltrials.org study for buprenorphine going on called "Buprenorphine For Late-Life Treatment Resistant Depression (BUILD)" where Reckitt Benckiser, Inc., the original developer of liquid buprenorphine who supplied bup. for the Harvard Bodkin 1995 study are supplying the liquid buprenorphine for this study so I wonder if this company, RB, is going to try to market a new form of buprenorphine indicated for treatment resistant depression. Again, liquid bup. given either intranally or squirted underneath the tongue in liquid like the original Bodkin study. Intranasally would be a new form if patented as companies come out with a liquid, chewable, long lasting/extended release or patch forms to hold onto patent to make more money so lets hope RB have plans on marketing bup to TRD patients with indication.
Posted by floatingbridge on October 23, 2011, at 8:24:43
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » Aurora, posted by safire4hope on October 18, 2011, at 7:29:01
Hi Safire,
I have TRD and chronic pain. I respond fabulously well to tramadol and hydrocodine, though experienced gradual escalation. Does suboxone or bupererephrone (sp) escalate over time? If so I would probably skip. If not, I am very interested,
Is there a website to see if there is a dispensing doctor in my area? I can't say I have an addictive past. I would need t o present as TRD and chronic pain and as a very favorable
responder. Thank you.
Posted by uncouth on October 23, 2011, at 8:56:58
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » safire4hope, posted by floatingbridge on October 23, 2011, at 8:24:43
I'm glad this thread is going. I have been looking into bupe. myself over the past few months. And I think I actually ordered some a long long time ago when I was in the worst of my horrible depression, suicidal, in 2009, when ECT didn't work. But I'm not sure I ever used them...
Anyway, I am in the process of contacting a few doctors in my area. I am not expecting much at all but will let you know at the minimum what they say.
I am wondering though, does anyone know the biology behind the opioid receptors in relationship to the other theories about depression? I mean, I get that opioids modulate pain and pleasure, but that's not the only thing wrong in depression. How does kappa antagonism, or mu agonism, or whatever, relate to the other theories behind depression or bipolar depression such as:
- monamine hypothesis
- glutamate overactivity at NMDA receptors
- increased oxidative stress and dendridit atrophy
- stress-related hippocampal atrophy
- sleep
= hormonal imbalance
- ketamine's rapid impact on depressionI mean I get that there is not one master key to fit the lock, but it seems crazy that bupe is working for even the sickest patients, who must be in a ton of pain, and seemingly fully resolving all the other symptoms. Is that true? Is it helping motivation, pleasure, positive affect, instead of just helping numb negative affect?
What are the hypotheses for the more dynamic effects that opioids have in the brain in terms of end results and neurogenesis, monamine regulation, etc....or perhaps the feelings of pleasure and numbing of pain sort of make life worth living again, and the normal parts of life that we all need to feel good are more easily attainable when one is not in a state of severe pain or severe angst or emptiness or existential despair, etc.
All I know is that when I was at my sickest, in 2009, when ECT didnt work and I wanted to die, and was actively making plans to kill myself, it is totally unconsciousable that I wasn't given opioids at that time if they could have helped. Unfortunately I wans't int eh right mind to think about that.
Uncouth
Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 23, 2011, at 10:53:40
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression - Question, posted by uncouth on October 23, 2011, at 8:56:58
The biology or mechanism of action of bup being the longest and most potent kappa antagonist that has an blocking effect on the overactivity of the brain and seems to calm it down do to chronic stress. The prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, the nucleus accumbens is part of the pleasure center(dopamine)and seems to not be normal (overactive) in both addicted patient and depressed patients according to Richard Gracer, MD of The National Alliance Of Advocates For Buprenorphine Treatment or NAABT.org. I've heard that kappa antagonist also block dynorphin which is the opposite of endorphins and makes individual feel kind of lousy, and not euphoric. I personally feel buprenorphine has more anti-anxiety effect that any of the benzodiazepines.
So much of this was already covered in the below post that I will repost them; hopefully that's allowed here.
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keeping opioid prescribers out of trouble pseudoname 11/10/05
Re: opiates and major depression Nieko 7/19/08
Re: keeping opioid prescribers out of trouble Crotale 7/21/08
Re: opiates and major depression » androog maree 7/22/08
Re: opiates and major depression Crotale 7/25/08
Re: opiates and major depression Crotale 7/25/08
Re: opiates and major depression » maree Nieko 8/27/08
Re: opiates and major depression » Aurora safire4hope 10/18/11
Re: opiates and major depression » safire4hope Chairman_MAO 10/18/11
Re: opiates and major depression » Chairman_MAO safire4hope 10/18/11
Re: opiates and major depression » safire4hope Chairman_MAO 10/18/11
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Re: opiates and major depression - Question uncouth 10/23/11
Posted by floatingbridge on October 23, 2011, at 14:12:00
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » safire4hope, posted by floatingbridge on October 23, 2011, at 8:24:43
I found two doctors in my area that treat with bupeenephrine (sp) and suboxone for both chronic pain and TRD.
I am assuming there is no escalation factor. If there is, would someone be kind enough to let me know.
I am going to check this out. Pain just limits my world. Apparently, there are a number of people on this for chronic pain. Wish me luck. Any thing I should consider, please let me know.
Posted by SLS on October 23, 2011, at 15:30:23
In reply to Looking into this, posted by floatingbridge on October 23, 2011, at 14:12:00
> I found two doctors in my area that treat with bupeenephrine (sp) and suboxone for both chronic pain and TRD.
>
> I am assuming there is no escalation factor. If there is, would someone be kind enough to let me know.
>
> I am going to check this out. Pain just limits my world. Apparently, there are a number of people on this for chronic pain. Wish me luck. Any thing I should consider, please let me know.
Go for it!
- Scott
Posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 5:25:28
In reply to Looking into this, posted by floatingbridge on October 23, 2011, at 14:12:00
>I am assuming there is no escalation factor. If there is, would someone be kind enough to let me know.
I've never taken it, but I assume you would need to have lowish expectations or there would need to be dose escalation.
But it would treat the pain, and the depression, and therefore seems to the point.
Posted by floatingbridge on October 24, 2011, at 10:01:55
In reply to Re: Looking into this, posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 5:25:28
Sigi, what does lowish expectations mean?
So far I have read there are two doses made. One fairly low 2mg and that is what chronic pain patients (fibromyalgia) take. The other 8mg may be given for opoid dependency.
I don't know. I have been reading about it on a fibromyalgia forum. The person on it longest has been two plus years at her starting dose.
The half life is 36 hours, so discontinuation is said to be very attenuated and unpleasant (by some).
Maybe the opoid thing freaks me out. Though could it be worse than some meds I am on or have been?
Posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 10:41:23
In reply to Re: Looking into this » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on October 24, 2011, at 10:01:55
All opioid dependence is difficult, but bupe dependence is easier than some (methadone) I feel sure.
I meant by lowish expectations that tolerance would be enough to keep any opioid feeling fairly small, and you would have to accept that. But you know all that.
I was always uneasy with you working your way through the psych drugs. If there was sense in that feeling, perhaps it was that you were in pain and sick, rather than depressed? Don't know. Or just my prejudices?
If you go on it, you know there will be a protracted withdrawal syndrome should you come off it, but nothing like methadone. Compared to hydrocodone I could not say.
But at least it makes sense.
Posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 10:53:59
In reply to Re: Looking into this » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 10:41:23
You made a comment (on the politics board) about hydrocodone.
What was it?
Parcelling out the pain in batches? Not quite.
With methadone what you get is a couple of nice hours and then back to normal.
I assume the kappa antagonism (if that is right) avoids the slightly depressing quality that people on methadone experience. Maybe that is where the AD effect (if there is one) will come from?
Certainly my experience with methadone was that it was a zero sum game. Those few nice hours are what you have to pay back, or so I felt.
I was reading about some herb and fibromyalgia. What can it have been? I take curcumin. It is possible to find a dose of that which does not aggravate insomnia (I think). I can't remember what it was now.
As you said, it will be no more traumatic than some meds you have been on. Not in the least in fact, until you try to stop. And even then, not so bad.
Posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 11:27:38
In reply to Re: Looking into this » sigismund, posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 10:53:59
That herb I was reading about would have been rehmannia.
Posted by floatingbridge on October 24, 2011, at 13:05:19
In reply to Re: Looking into this, posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 11:27:38
Thanks, sigi. I think rehmannia, that is Chinese? I might be confusing it with rhodilia, which is maoi contradicted.
Yes, I think the kappa activity is the antidepressant quality. That is the sum depth of my knowledge.
So it would be more difficult to discontinue than hydrocodine?
I disliked how it set my pain clock. By the end of my use, it was every four-five hours, and I would be looking at my watch. I didn't really escalate past a certain point because more did not do more and made me very dumb. Plus I did not want to. I wanted to work within that ceiling. But the crap I took from doctors was humiliating at times.
Really, I found tramadol was superior for mood and pain.
I am still mulling this over. Gabapentin is just stupefying. My doc wanted me to take more. He still does. But I do not feel good past 900mg. But that stuff sets my pain clock, too. I don't think there is a way around that when using medication.
I took a hydrocodine two weeks ago. Five milligrams. It felt very freeing. It was easy to move, I felt peaceful, the world was tolerable. I decided to just enjoy the few hours and not try to make it last. I still have this crazy big bottle left from when I quit. I was having a crappy day and said f*ck it.
Posted by floatingbridge on October 24, 2011, at 14:42:18
In reply to Re: Looking into this » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on October 24, 2011, at 13:05:19
sigi, oh, you said you could not say.
Sometimes I do not read things through very well the first time.
Oh well.
I imagine I would need to talk to a doctor and have all my questions written up ahead. (It's not so much my memory but my distractibility....)
Posted by sigismund on October 24, 2011, at 14:48:43
In reply to Re: Looking into this » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on October 24, 2011, at 13:05:19
> It felt very freeing. It was easy to move, I felt peaceful, the world was tolerable.
That was exactly my attraction to opiates.
From what I read you would have a few horrible weeks withdrawing from bupe. But the intensity would depend on the dosage.
I took gabapentin (mainly 300mg/d) for a year or so without adverse effect beyond weight gain until the latest thing. But swelling of the feet is no good....you have to be able to walk. I'm suspicious of it now. And I liked it too. If you have a 14 hour flight, it is quite an escape to take 1200mg. Everything becomes so much more fun. I can even approach those in flight computer and my neighbours with some degree of calm. Not as good as hydrocodone of course. There was a time people talked to each other. Maybe that was when I was more attractive? I had a wonderful chat once to an American who lived in Bangkok and was reading Sodom and Gomorrah from Rememberence of Things Past in French. Now no one says a word.
Rehmannia is Chinese and may possibly have something to do with endogenous steroid production. At any rate it is used for adrenal insufficiency (I think) and autoimmune diseases and fibro. I was told that Tian Wang Bu Xin Wan (of which it is an ingredient) would extend my life, which I took to be their polite way of saying they didn't like my chances at that point.
Posted by Chairman_MAO on October 24, 2011, at 20:55:46
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » Chairman_MAO, posted by europerep on October 22, 2011, at 7:19:07
> They can have their careers destroyed regardless of whether they can rationally explain in front of an investigative panel the reasons for giving buprenorphine to TRD patients.Yes, that is a huge problem and I reject the legitimacy of such panels.
>
> > It is very much like prescribing morphine or heroin.
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> Not according to the people who have done research on this for years and years. I trust them more than internet people.
>
> > Risk to who? Overdose is difficult; TCAs are more dangerous.
>
> Ever heard of that pesky addiction thing? Buprenorphine is a drug with abuse potential, like all other opiates. (The hypocrisy about giving Adderall to anyone with ADHD but not giving buprenorphine to TRD patients is a different story.) I agree that a risk-benefit assessment for bupe in TRD can be positive, but buprenorphine is not Prozac.
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>You are so snarky I really don't know how to respond. "Abuse potential"? You mean something that someone wants to take? No, buprenorphine is not Prozac. It is a much better drug with greater efficacy which has not been documented to induce dysphoric mania leading to suicides.
Addiction? A vast majority of people that take narcotics do not develop an "addiction"--which in and of itself is a value judgement.
Posted by Chairman_MAO on October 24, 2011, at 21:01:29
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression » europerep, posted by Chairman_MAO on October 24, 2011, at 20:55:46
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> (The hypocrisy about giving Adderall to anyone with ADHD but not giving buprenorphine to TRD patients is a different story.)Actually, it's the same exact story. What about giving dextroamphetamine to someone with TRD? Everyone has a right to drugs, period.
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