ixy
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I was actually just wondering about exactly this a few days ago, if maybe"withdrawaling"from naltrexone would feel like being on an opiate
Here's my thinking:
First of all, withdrawal from pretty much any drug does the opposite to your brain of what the drug it self does . As an example, opiates make you high by causing the release of a pile of dopamine into your brain. Opiate w/d happens when your body has stopped producing enough dopamine because it's used to getting it from opiates.
Then it occurred to me that, maybe if you could get physically "addicted" to something that made you feel lousy, the "withdrawal" might be fun. Naltrexone was the first think that popped into my head, I thought it might do the opposite of what opiate addiction does. Maybe your body would start making more dopamine to compensate for the naltrexone blocking a bunch of your receptors and then when you stopped the naltrexone you would get high because of all the extra dopamine your body had been making.
Here's my thinking:
First of all, withdrawal from pretty much any drug does the opposite to your brain of what the drug it self does . As an example, opiates make you high by causing the release of a pile of dopamine into your brain. Opiate w/d happens when your body has stopped producing enough dopamine because it's used to getting it from opiates.
Then it occurred to me that, maybe if you could get physically "addicted" to something that made you feel lousy, the "withdrawal" might be fun. Naltrexone was the first think that popped into my head, I thought it might do the opposite of what opiate addiction does. Maybe your body would start making more dopamine to compensate for the naltrexone blocking a bunch of your receptors and then when you stopped the naltrexone you would get high because of all the extra dopamine your body had been making.