lol! thanks for that post, i was about to post something similar.
I only saw the second page, and was wondering why nobody answered the question, and instead was arguing about marijuana's addictive qualities, which i will address first before answering the OP's question: to put it simply... addiction is a compulsive habit that presents withdrawal symptoms when the habit abruptly stops... so, yes, marijuana is addictive, in the sense that biting my nails is addictive, or watching baseball is addictive. when the yankees were knocked out of the playoffs, i immediately got stressed, and the thought of having to go almost half a year without baseball made me anxious. I also remember putting bandaids on all my fingers for a week so i couldnt bite my nails... a habit i don't enjoy but can't control. it drove me nuts!!! these are all mental symptoms, as are withdrawal symptoms from stopping marijuana. when i stop, i think about it more, and how i want it, and how bored i am without it, etc etc. Coffee, however... take away my coffee for a week and i'm done! migraines every day, stomach aches... literally an non functioning human being.
and to the person who said marijuana is more addictive than alcohol/B] ... are you fucking kidding me???!!! when you have a seizure from stopping your marijuana use, then get back to me.
to me, there are two types of addictions:
addictions that cause MENTAL withdrawal
and
addictions that cause PHYSICAL withdrawal
the difference is one can be controlled unless you have a weak mind, and the other, the person has no control over. thats why rehab for opiates (or other ADDICTIVE drugs) have 2 major parts to recovery - detox, and then actual rehabilitation. detox gets the drug out and the body back on track where it no longer needs the drug to feel normal. the rest of rehabilitation is focused on the mental aspect to make sure they don't fall back into the addiction, because once you fall back in, you will do anything to obtain the drug just so you don't feel sick... again, physical withdrawals! when somebody REALLYYYYYYY wants a bag of weed when they're out, its because exactly that.... they really want it. when i realllllllly need a bag of heroin, i might not even want it, i just need it, because i can't function and i'm sick n hurt up. in my head, i might want to stop, or not spend my last 20 bucks, etc etc, but my mind is telling me i need it to be normal. your mind will never do that with weed, because you don't become physically dependent on it. sorry for ranting, i just get pissed when people go on about marijuana being addictive... sure, it is, mentally... just like anything, literally anything, can be. i don't want to hear anyone bitch about an addiction, though, unless they literally are sick without it and will knowingly make irrational decisions to obtain the drug to avoid the physical withdrawals. the only time you detox with marijuana is to pass a drugtest... ok, idk why i'm still going on about this lol. marijuana cannot form a real addiction. caffeine can. marijuana can't (mental, yes... real addiction needs to be mental and physical, otherwise everything in the whole world could be an addiction).
now, back on topic (sorry OP for being another asshole contributing to the argument completely unrelated to your thread)
trazadone, simply, is one of the oldest prescription anti-depressent that is ineffective until taken at doses so high that the user simply falls asleep. for this reason, it is hardly prescribed for depression anymore, though often prescribed for sleeping disorders, as it is relatively harmless, as proven after about 50 years on the market. in the 60s it wouldnt be uncommon to see zombies in the mental ward, looked at as being even more crazy, because they were knocked out on trazadone. i was (still am, but never got a refill since getting it almost 2 years ago) prescribed it for sleeping, but only take it in extreme conditions, because even the next day, i feel groggy and tired from taking 50-100 (sometimes 150) milligrams. the typical dose, if i remember correctly (for treatment of depression) is ~300-400mgs. hell, 50-100 knocks me out cold, and i'm a straight insomniac (ambien doesn't make me sleep, or oc, heroin... nothing really). if i didn't feel like shit the next day, id take it.
