Can Vicodin Abuse Cause The Brain’s Chemistry To Be Altered In A Way That Causes Depression?
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Yes. Absolutely.
Good luck!
Vicodin is a depressant in and of itself. It works on brain chemicals to suppress reactions to pain which also suppresses reactions to pleasure as well. Since it has such a psychological effect on people it is alot like marijuana use…once you are used to being on Vicodin or marijuana, the world seems to suck alot more when you are not taking it because your brain is more alert and responsive to every little thing.
Hope this helps!
Best thing to do is to taper off slowly.
It could do or it could be other things in your life causing depression that got you started taking vicodin too to deal with them.Vicodin probably can do though,especially if its a depressant.Cut down very gradually and if you take any other drugs (prescription or not) be carefull about drug interactions.When I took cocaine it made me very depressed for about a week after.You could go to a drug counsellor or something but anti-depressants gave me horrible side affects,and from what Iv read a lot of people do get the side affects,so be careful with those,or if you do start them get your doc to start you on a really low dose,like 10mg.But yeah,vicodin probably can make you depressed.
It could just be that before your life was centred around taking vicodin,cause you were addicted,and now without it your life feels harder or emptier,cause your gonna have to re-build it after spending so much time focused on the drug.Maybe see if you can get a counsellor or something to talk to.I think I might feel a bit differint since the bad reaction to anti-depressants,but Iv read eventually that wears off and you feel normal again.
You could try some of the herbal stuff,like St Johns Wort,cause theres less side affects with that than chemicals,and apparently its just as effective.
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i don’t think the drug itself can cause depression, but the addiction can, which leads to the person taking more to ease the pain.
when i was post op popping percocet every 10 minutes i felt depressed all the time. maybe?
No REALLY, watch House, just look what Vicodin abuse has done to him
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