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Re: Why do people stop stimulants cold turkey?

Posted by med_empowered on September 26, 2005, at 16:35:00 [reposted on September 28, 2005, at 5:32:45 | original URL]

In reply to Why do people stop stimulants cold turkey?, posted by KaraS on September 26, 2005, at 14:12:34

I dunno. I think standard practice is to do a taper, but since stimulant withdrawal doesn't result in, say, seizures like benzos, and since docs tend to have this double-edged view of them as Effective but also addictive (good/bad; helpful/harmful), I think there's a tendency to rush through the taper, resulting in some needless suffering. I did a stimulant taper as an in-patient in a psychiatric hospital. IT WAS AWFUL. Get this: the doc who designed the taper, made it go REALLY fast, so my pre-existing depression got that much worse. So, what did he do? He kept me in longer b/c my "condition was deteriorating". Crazy world.


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