Question by Lucy: What is the addiction and recovery rate for antidepressants?
What is the addiction and recovery rate for antidepressants? Please include website you found the information on. THANK YOU!!!!

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Answer by ixi26c
I am a psychopharmacology student (drugs and behavior). After Thanksgiving we’re going to discuss antidepressants in-depth. But what I already know tells me you do not become addicted to antidepressants. Also, the whole concept of “addiction” isn’t defined. What you’re probably referring to is physical dependency. You would not experience this. Physical dependency is characterized by withdrawal symptoms that tend to be exaggerrated and opposite effects of the drug. But antidepressants, specifically SSRIs (Zoloft, Prozac) have a very long half-life which means it takes a very long time for the body to rid itself of the drug. When you switch antidepressants you have to wait a couple of weeks before trying a new one, otherwise you may risk serotonin toxicity (which is a neurotransmitter in your brain). If you want web sources, why don’t you just search google? I’d be careful about what web sources you trust, however. I’d more readily trust books.

Answer by stillstanding
That all depends on which drug you are talking about.

I can only speak from personal experience here and not scientific studies or the like.

I am now on Lexapro and it has helped me get over the hump of my depression, and with no side effects as of yet.

I also have heard many people praise this drug, both doctors and patients, but statistics really don’t matter at all for antidepressants.

This is because every person taking these drugs react differently to them, regardless of how many other people have been helped by a specific drug.

Antidepressant use is really just a trial and error process, no matter how popular or effective any specific drug becomes (like Prozac).

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Question by candigal: What comes to mind when you think of a “drug addict”?
Are “drug addicts ” bad people? Is drug use a choice? What is the eccomomic status of most people who use drug? What are some of the names people have for drug addicts? Do you think treatment works? How are “addicts” different then “non-addicts”? This is for an essay I am writing. Thanks for your help. Also do you think that there is a certain eithnic group that has a higher rate of substance abuse?

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Answer by Hell’s Own Harlot
Drug addicts are not necessarily bad people. They lack self control and are under a notion that what they want must be gratified RIGHT NOW. They lack any type of concern for how their behavior effects others and personally, I consider it a slow suicide. Treatment only works if you want it to. You have to be motivated and most drug users aren’t. There are not any particular ethnic groups that are more prone to use than any other. You have losers in every race of people.

Answer by mhjd3
Some addicts may be bad, others good [ my opinion ]

I also think drugs are a choice. I’ve heard some cancer patients have marijuana to lighten their pain.

I know someone that does weed on a regular basis. He said it’s a Jamacian tradition. I’m not sure of that. And he’s only 12, which shocks me.

Sorry, I can’t help with the other questions.
Good luck. :]

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Question by John Matthew: How do you find drug rehabs?
I will be moving and was looking for a toll free number or something that could forward me to local drug rehabs, my sister has an addiction problem.

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Answer by Rome
888-880-1138 Owls Nest Recovery Community. This place really works. You can also listen to testimonials on that same number of some amazing stories. Leave a message is an option also. They all went thru the program and are listed also here: www.recoverfromaddictionnow.com

Answer by Mr Richard
“Nationwide Rehab”, its a toll free public service that locates local drug rehabs in your city or state.

(855)-GET REHAB or (855)-438-7342

Good luck!

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Question by jpc8015: Seceding from the States?
Did anybody hear about the Lakota Indian Tribe wanting to disolve their treaties with the federal government and set up their own country? Is this a good idea for them? How would they manage without federal aid for everything from “cultural centers” to drug and alcohol rehabilitation? At some point would we need to go and forcibly take their land back from them in order to save them from themselves? What would the consequences be, could we then take away their status as a soveirgn nation and not give them treaties?

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Answer by Perplexed Bob
Well, considering the living conditions on reservations, I don’t see how they were be losing much if they declared their own country.

Answer by Fancy That
technically, all Native tribes are considered their own nation. So the US has many nations with in the nation.

I think we’ve done quite enough ‘forcibly taking their land’. And you cannot take back what you never had a right to in the first place. That property belonged to these people long before we came along.

It is the right of any group to define their culture, as long as it doesn’t pick my pocket or break my leg.

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Question by ridethelightning: How do addicts not realize they are on Intervention?
With Intervention now being a globally popular show, I don’t really understand how they are still keeping these addicts under the impression that they are “filming a documentary about addiction.” There’s no way they can just not realize what’s happening.

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Answer by Ashley D
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Answer by Captain Smartass
How is it globally popular? I’ve never heard of it.

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