Methadone Maintenance: Anyone Heard of Treating Heroin Addiction and Depression With Marijuana?
Question by T: Anyone heard of treating heroin addiction and depression with marijuana?
I am looking for websites or articles that talk about this issue. This is a serious question and I would really appreciate serious answers. I know that marijuana has medicinal uses and that depression and heroin addiction are treated with pharmaceutical drugs. I am looking for current, credible research on the issue…please…thanks :o)
Best answer:
Answer by Eric L
No, heroin addiction and depression are not good things to be treated by marijuana. First of all, heroin addiction is not like other addictions: when you “kick it” you go through physical withdrawals, and it is very painful and unpleasant. Marijuana would not help that, other than with the nausea some people report when going through withdrawal. However, marijuana would most likely increase the anxiety one feels when in withdrawal. And depression is a terrible thing to treat with marijuana. Prescription medications such as Zoloft and other SSRI’s “fix” your depression by regulating your serotonin re-uptake, whereas marijuana increases it temporarily to a level where you get euphoria, and then when the marijuana wears off, the serotonin levels plummet below the level they were at before using marijuana.
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