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It has Mu receptor activity at very large doses, it is a (somewhat) effective anti depression response at low doses.

What that all means is that the withdrawals from long term use as an opiate, rather than an antidepressant are absolutely legendary. Imagine having to withdraw from Heroin… but also you have to withdraw from a large dose of antidepressant at the same time… terrifying.

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You know what else does that? Massive amounts of loperimide. It also causes heart problems and can kill you, but you get a minor buzz from it if you eat 100 of them.

I will never understand someone who clearly already has a drug dealer choosing to do dirtier versions of their drugs. Why not drop the cocaine and stick to those dick pills they sell at the gas stations at that point?

While I’m at it, I don’t understand coke heads either. What an awful drug to try and enjoy.

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I will never understand someone who clearly already has a drug dealer choosing to do dirtier versions of their drugs.

Then you don’t fully understand the bottoms of addiction and the unreliability of drug dealers. People will go through extreme efforts to avoid withdrawal.

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Too right they will.

They sell my drug in all the gas stations, advertise it on TV, billboards and radio, just about every restaurant serves it.

And yet, there are still alcoholics that will drink sanitizer if that’s all they can get and the shakes and sweats have started. I never drank sanitizer, but that doesn’t mean much, knowing what I did do when I still drank.

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I did say choosing, as it appears this was. But yes desperate addicts will take anything.

A box of imodium isnt all that dissimilar to what was mentioned in this post.

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