Depression Support Group

Better living through chemistry.

that was in one of my chem books from long time ago in a land far-far away....

I dunno,I just know I'm nicer to friends.If you'd have seen me 3 years ago you'd have been taking me to the docs lol x

I take PAIN meds for my lowed back and I take the Pecocet and they are 1 above the vicadin and I have never been without in yrs. but for me in the beggining a half pill was like o.k. I can do this but I have buit tollerance and it takes 5-8 a day and that good feeling has been gone for a long time, but they did make me feel like ........................
Hey, this is pretty dam good!!

Be carefull, they are addicting and good!! :)

they are opiates and are very very addicting. can be very damaging to your liver as well after some time. be very careful.

for people like me in chronic pain, they do not make you feel great, you take enough to bear the pain, it is just to make your life tolerable, and i can tell you from almost 20 yrs. of suffering they do not work well for most chronic pain sufferers and you do build up a tolerance, which i could build up tolerence to the pain!!! I have taken a demeral and 2 valium and still can not lay down right now. i am not addicted to my narcotics, but i do depend on them to even have the pissy quality of life i have.

Along with being very addicting, you have to be VERY careful what you take/drink when you are on them, just like with antidepressant medication. They are not something to be taken without having your doc mointor the whole situation.

The term narcotic (ναρκωτικός) is believed to have been coined by the Greek physician Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden, causing loss of feeling or paralysis. It is based on the Greek word ναρκωσις (narcosis), the term used by Hippocrates for the process of benumbing or the benumbed state. Galen listed mandrake root, altercus (eclata)[1] seeds, and poppy juice (opium) as the chief examples.[2][3]

Use of the word "narcotic" to refer to any illegal or unlawfully possessed drug including marijuana and cocaine is common worldwide, although these substances are not considered narcotics in a medical context. The central drug policy making body with in the United Nations, for instance, is the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, although the United Nations officially defines a narcotic drug to be "any of the substances, natural or synthetic, in Schedules I and II of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961"[4]

In U.S. legal context, the term "narcotic" specifically refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semi-synthetic or fully synthetic substitutes as well as cocaine and coca leaves.

Because the term is often used so broadly or pejoratively outside of medical contexts, most medical professionals advocate the use of more precise terms such as "opioid" and "opioid analgesic" to refer to the natural, semi-synthetic, and synthetic substances that behave pharmacologically like morphine and are used primarily for their pain-relieving qualities.[5] The use of the term "narcotic" in various nonclinical contexts is not of educational or of informative value. The decision to term all illegal drugs as narcotics is often used as a shorthand way to politicize and demonize any illegal drug.

The effects are short lived. The longer you take them, the more you need. They do feel wonderful but be careful with them.

Baz, thank you kindly for the info! I'm trying to find my mandrake root online now! Ha.
So, since everyone says you build a tolerance, that answers my question as to why we are not prescribed these meds as help for depression. I just wonder why there can't be something in this class that can help for depression, without the need to take more and more. I hope I have another tooth pulled! No, I am careful. I have half a bottle and will not take them unless I'm in pain. Especially since the come down was so not fun. Thanks for all your responses!

careful.....every part of the mandrake plant is poisonous. lol...nothing is safe or easy is it?