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IS PROZAC HABIT-FORMING OR ADDICTIVE?
23 March 2009
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Anti Depressants-Sleeping Aid
There is no evidence in laboratory studies of Prozac in animals or in clinical studies with thousands of patients that it is either habit-forming or addictive. The two common properties of addictive substances are tolerance (the need to take increasingly stronger doses to achieve the same result) and withdrawal (the collection of disturbing psychic and psychological symptoms that occur when an addictive substance is removed from a patient’s system). Patients who do well on 20 mg of Prozac for long periods of time do not become tolerant and therefore need 30 or 40 mg to obtain the same result. Likewise, when patients go off Prozac, there are no moderate to severe withdrawal symptoms such as diarrhea, anxiety, pains, nasal stuffiness, and insomnia. These symptoms may be seen in addicted patients when they withdraw from habit-forming tranquilizers such as Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Librium, Miltown, and all of the typical sleeping medications, including barbiturates, Halcion, Restoril, Dalmane, and chloral hydrate.
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