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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: post-Prozac reactions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.172640.2997@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:26:39 -0600
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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- [reply to hank@well.sf.ca.us]
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- >In re the thread about antidepressants getting people up to a level
- >of activity where they can actually commit suicide (before they
- >get the antidepressant effect enough to feel better, I presume):
- >
- >Is this also what's going on with the high number of suicides while
- >drunk? antidepressant effect allowing the person to act on the impulse?
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- No. It's because alcohol reduces inhibitions and impairs judgement.
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- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
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