Author: Breezy_Ann

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:48 am

I tend to agree with Tear about the long term effect of using opiates for depression. The main reason being that most people do feel better early in there opiate treatment but based on my experience and others eventually opiates will turn on you and increase your depression. If this were to occur then what? Now you are opiate dependant and dealing with more problems than with which you started.

However I can understand how horrible depression is and why someone would want to try sub if all else has failed. I think before sub is an accepted medication for treatment resistant depression there needs to be some long term data. The downside to this is if it does work it would be a while before it can be prescribed for depression.

So I guess what I am saying is that I understand the want and desire to be cured but what happens if the treatment that is helping you makes it all worse a year or two down the road?