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Prozac to protect your brain

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What are peoples thoughts on using prozac after a night out on the pills to protect your brain? Most of the information I have seen has said that even though it is not proven to work in humans, it is proven to work in rats and primates, and that a fair conclusion would be that the human mind should react the same as the animals. apparently, if taken up to six hours after your pill, it will "block up" the roetin(sp?) transporters and thus stop dopamine being transported back into your brain cells after all the serotonem is depleted.
If you planned your night properly, six hours is not an unreasonable time, you could be home and ready to sleep by then.
I guess this practice would be illegal as prozac is not otc, but this site IS about harm minimalisation, so if you could lay your hands on some...
anyway, if this topic has been done to death in the past, I appologise, if not any feedback would be greatly appreciated
 
here's another take, from:
www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_553361.html
Prozac 'may stimulate growth of brain tumours'
Scientists say the anti-depressant drug Prozac may stimulate the growth of brain tumours.
An international team of researchers found the drug could block the body's natural ability to kill cancer cells.
But Professor John Gordon of Birmingham University, who led the research, says it's too early to suggest the drug is unsafe.
A spokesman for Prozac's maker, Eli Lilly, says the research is too new for the company to make a detailed response.
The drug, used by millions of people worldwide, was tested on a group of tumour cells growing in a test tube.
The findings will be published in the journal Blood next week, says The Independent.
Prof Gordon and his team found evidence to suggest cancer cells can be killed by "positive thinking" which can be blocked when people use Prozac.
Prozac was first approved in the US in 1987 and is widely used for the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bulimia nervosa.
Prof Gordon is emphasising the results of his study can't be taken as proof that Prozac stimulates the growth of tumours.
"Although that extrapolation could be valid, there is no direct evidence from large-scale epidemiological studies currently to back it up. However, it's important that we look again and again," he said.
Story filed: 07:31 Tuesday 26th March 2002
 
my thoughts on using prozac to minimise harm:
i'd like to rename this thread to
"less mdma to protect your brain"
benefits:
it's more effective than prozac. it's less expensive than prozac. taking less, you'll remember the night better. your memory wont suffer as badly. you wont come down quite so hard.
i've taken prozac in the past on the come down... sure it's an effective way of removing those bad moods and sketchy mornings... but all too quickly you'll find yourself using it as justification for going way too hard... 'it's ok man, i can have a 3rd, hell, i've got prozac for the comedown. it removes the risk of neurotoxicity too!" mdma more than likely does much more damage than simply neurotoxicity...
it's a sliding scale. harm minimisation can easily become a false sense of security and justification for taking more. prozac is the quickest path to this. i think so anyway :P
that's my 2c.
 
Prozac/SSRI's were found most helpful if used up to 6 hours post first dose of MDMA. After this it becomes less effective. So you definitely can't take a bunch of pills over the course of a long night and expect Prozac to prevent all neurotoxicity. Anti-oxidants are more important IMO, as they can be taken beforehand. By the time you take a Prozac at 6hours post, damage may already be occurring, hence the place for anti-oxidants.
 
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