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Re: What happen you add alcohol to your antidepressants? - October 1st 2011, 05:01 PM

Sassie, let me walk a fine line here and try to respond.

Generally speaking, my experience has been that 19 year olds ask this not so much b/c they're out for dinner at a fine restaurant and want a glass of vintage burgundy with their meal, but b/c they want to get slammed.

So, regardless of the medication your taking, this isn't a good idea, the interaction of the booze and the meds in your bloodstream can have bad effects, the specific ones depending on the specific meds, but regardless, not good. The typical response from docs is "Don't".

Talk with your doc about this, but generally speaking, you have to decide if you want to get better, or just get drunk.


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