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Nick
It's not addictive in a traditional sense the way nicotine or painkillers are, but enjoying the buzz too much is certainly an issue, especially if you're dropping multiple pills over the course of a night, or more than every other week. The primary effects are related to the drug causing dysfunction of serotonin reuptake transporters, effectively making them work in reverse and flood the synapses of the brain in serotonin. However, as the brain runs out of stored serotonin, the abnormally functioning transporters will allow dopamine and possibly other neurotransmitters where they do not belong, where there breakdown has been linked the neurotoxic damage over time. This damage can be either eliminated or reduced to irrelevant levels by taking the following precautions: (1) Don't drop more often than every other week. (2) No more than two pills, one if they're strong, per drop. (3) Take a dose of an SSRI, preferably prozak, after the "peak" of your high passes. This is the point at which the brain is vulnerable to the neurotoxic damage, and blocking the abnormally functioning reuptake transporters at the same time as serotonin is reaching depletion seems to prevent or strongly reduce damage.
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