Posted by yxibow on November 23, 2006, at 4:41:01
In reply to Buprenorphine-Advice Please, posted by Tom Twilight on November 22, 2006, at 16:23:00
> Hi all
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> I just took 0.4mg of Buprenorphine
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> All I can say is Wow!
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> Anxiety and Social Anxiety disapeared, so did depression.
> I didn't feel druged and Monged out like a benzo
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> Now I know that Bupe is an Opiate, and that it should be used as a first med, but I have tried a lot of drugs including MAOIs and nothing seems to work.
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> What I really want to know is does anyone have any experience with Bupe, has anyone been taking it long term?
> Does tollerance build up?
> Can it be prevented?Tolerance is a possibility and even a probability with any opiate given enough time. It is a C-III agent and is used primarily for withdrawal from other opiates.
Since opiates are not a standard practice of care for psychiatry in the US, most psychiatrists would shy away from any prescribing of them because they can have their license revoked and be federally prosecuted for misuse of narcotics.
Whether they were used "in the old days" in psychiatry may be true, but so were people given insulin and had holes drilled in their heads. Its not to say that there may be future consideration of mu-receptor modulation but the trials I can imagine would be very restricted
"Wow" is probably the response that anybody would have to a midrange opiate -- percocet may be a nice reward for wisdom tooth extraction as I can attest but not for the psychiatrist who is out of a job.-- Jay
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