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- From: billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)
- Subject: Re: Prozac side effects
- Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News & Mail
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:53:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.015329.1215@seanews.akita.com>
- References: <1992Nov6.073507.405@news.wesleyan.edu> <Bxu5nK.26E@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1992Nov17.091033.25417@newstand.syr.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.091033.25417@newstand.syr.edu> mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline) writes:
- >In article <Bxu5nK.26E@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> muwjt@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (William J. Taney) writes:
- >>What kind of interaction would PROZAC have with Alchol
- >
- >Little or none. Prozac does not potentiate alcohol induced sedation,
- >in contrast to other kinds of antidepressants. People taking tricyclic
- >or MAOI antidepressants should NOT be drinking. However, it is usually
- >recommended that people taking any antidepressant medication should
- >abstain from alcohol (or keep its use to an absolute minimum) in the
- >interest of getting their mood or anxiety disorder under control, and
- >avoiding problems with alcohol, for which depressed and anxious
- >people are at higher risk.
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- Isn't there an issue with alcohol reducing the seizure threshold,
- especially with fluoxetine and buproprion?
-
- Bill
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