View Full Version : Oral use - Abilify (Aripiprazole), recreational use?
TheBlackPope
07-08-2007, 06:27
Is it possible for swim to take alot or snort some of his abilify to produce any recreational sideeffects? It has a drowsiness portion to it so swim think it should work.
Please always include the chemical name of pharmaceutical drugs in your posts. This can be easily obtained from Google or other search engine. Doing so will avoid confusion on this international forum. Thank you.
Abilify is Aripiprazole, and no, Anti-Psychotics don't have any recreational potential.
Micklemouse
07-08-2007, 07:38
Nada. Nope. None whatsoever. The only side-effects to be gained from this med are going to Extra-Pyramidal ones - not fun.
Please do not believe the drug companies hype regarding the lack of EPSE's or other side effects with this med. In practice A Certain Mouse has met very few individuals who have tolerated this med well at anything approaching therapeutic doses. The akathisia it causes has generally turned out to be unbearable, & the incidence of dystonia is higher than first anticipated.
One sure fire way to experience adverse effects from an anti-psychotic is to rapidly increase the dose, which is what your donkey seems to be proposing. Please advise him against it.
TheBlackPope
07-08-2007, 08:50
Thanks for the help.
But one more question.
If it produces drowsiness, isn't that a good indicator that double the maximum does would put swim in for an extra drowsy time?
Or would he just pass out?
Micklemouse
07-08-2007, 13:14
He would either pass out or experience one of the adverse reactions listed on the Patient Information Leaflet that should have come with his meds or that are documented widely in literature & on the Web, & that can be found with minimal digging. Either way it would not equate to a "recreational" experience.
Please do not confuse the increased euphoria & "nod" from slightly higher dose opiates or benzodiazepines with the over-sedation associated with high dose anti-psychotics. Over-sedation can be a distressing & potentially life-threatening situation, needing close monitoring - there is a high risk of hypotension (decreased blood pressure), incontinence, injury, tachycardia & possibly other organ problems, coma... From the trials & reports so far, Aripiprazole seems relatively safe in overdose. However I must stress that this is real life, & trials have been known to give a skewed view of reality. As I stated above, trials showed that Aripiprazole gave very few adverse effects - the reality is that it can give just as many as any other anti-psychotic, & often with a greater severity.
Again, the chances of adverse effects are increased with a rapid increase in dose, which taking an overdose (& let's face it, taking double the prescribed amount is an overdose) would count as.
I know that I take abilify as prescribed, and I have read and felt how hydrocodone can increase the effects. This I got off one of those web MD sites "Avoid using other medicines that make you sleepy (such as cold medicine, pain medication, muscle relaxers, and medicine for seizures, depression or anxiety). They can add to sleepiness caused by hydrocodone, which could result in extreme drowsiness or coma."
So opiates, such as hydrocodone, increase the effect of depression and anxiety medicines.
But to be honest w/you, abilify when taken correctly can do wonderful things for your life. It has even calmed me down while wiggin' out in the distant past. It's good stuff, give it a chance the right way.
TAKE AS PRESCRIBED! Drugs that weren't designed to get high on, trying to get high on them will only make you miserable. Trust me.
Also: I am aware abilify is also used as an anti-pyschotic, not just for anxiety and depression, but it is used to treat all 3 of those things, in combination or apart.
seeingred
11-09-2007, 02:15
other than making you tired and bored...none.
charmedman18
01-06-2008, 05:43
I took both Abilify and Geodone. Both are horrid. (mental ward for 12 days for depression)
I watched cool people become mindless zombies as they were dosed higher and higher with these two drugs.
Abilify = flu symtoms for me
Geodone = Worsened anxiety symptoms (already have panic and anxiety, for which I take klonopin)
Abilify is amazing I have to say.....
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Im sorry I just meant that it has helped me so much b4 abilify I suffered from bad anxiety so bad I wanted to die and I has constant suicidal thought's and constant depression:p depression so bad I hated to even leave my house I also suffer from minor bipolar I tried so many different pills for these symptoms and nothing worked untill now untill I tried abilify:crazy I did post this in the wrong area because I dont use abilify for rec.:s I use it because I need it.