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- Subject: Re: Prozac and alcohol
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.202728.453@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 21 Nov 92 20:27:26 EDT
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- In <By0KMD.E2v@world.std.com> rsilver@world.std.com writes:
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- > My wife is trying Prozac for mild depression. The physician said
- > no alcohol and was quite adamant. My wife likes a daily glass of
- > wine with dinner and asked the pharmacist. He said there is no
- > problem mixing alcohol and Prozac. Would someone comment?
- > Is there a risk mixing the drugs?
-
- I think the greater problem (than mixing Prozac & alcohol) is mixing
- *depression* and alcohol. Perhaps the physician was concerned that the "daily
- glass of wine" might be (1) contributing to the depression; (2) an attempt at
- "self-medicating" the depression; or (3) in danger of getting out of hand &
- becoming a problem, when combined with the depression.
-
- On a rather personal note, I wish someone had recognized my ex's daily drink as
- a warning sign of alcohol-trouble far earlier than I did. Perhaps if he'd had
- a doctor who had treated his depression & gotten him to give up the alcohol ...
- <oh, well: "if", "if", "if", ...> I wish we could be blessed with hindsight
- AHEAD OF TIME, when it would actually do any good. *NOT* that I'm saying that
- this is your wife's situation; it just kind of rings one of those bells of
- personal experience. I'd say, if the doc told her to lay off the wine for a
- while, do it. It might help in the end & it couldn't hurt, could it?
-
- P.S.: If it is REALLY HARD for her to give up her daily glass of wine for a
- time, then this *IS* a warning sign of difficulties with alcohol. For a person
- who is neither physiologically nor psychologically dependent on alcohol, it
- should *NOT* be difficult to abstain for a while.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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