User:PharmaNut

Love to learn and write about pharmacology, neuroscience, and medical sciences in general. I also love anime. Studying to become a neuroscientist. I’m also very weird in my interests, and I’m also just very weird in general. I’m like, mentally ill, cringy, awkward, e.t.c.

Random stuff I wrote below……

My favourite drugs consist of both non-psychoactive and psychoactive drugs for both therapeutic and recreational purposes. Some of these favourite drugs of mine are: statins (rosuvastatin and atorvastatin) and PCSK9 inhibitors (alirocumab), ace inhibitors (lisinopril and ramipril), calcium channel blockers (amlodipine), selective beta 1 adrenergic antagonists (bisoprolol), clonidine, h1 inverse agonists (cetirizine for allergies, diphenhydramine for sleep!), amphetamine type stimulants (mainly dextroamphetamine as I have ADHD), NSAIDs (really good for renal colic pain, though sometimes it isn’t enough), opioids (oxymorphone! Wish that they were regulated in a way that doesn’t make people in pain suffer terribly, as I have experience with having severe acute renal colic pain and being left in pain while in the emergency department several times.), metformin, dissociative hallucinogens like DXM and ketamine, classical psychedelics like LSD, 5-HT3 antagonists (ondansetron), monoamine oxidase inhibitors, nicotine (specifically from cigarettes, bad for me yes I know, but I don’t find other sources very pleasurable), and isotretinoin (great acne drug that cleared me amazingly, with basically no adverse effects for me).

I heavily support harm reduction and responsible drug use. I also think many drugs like statins, blood pressure meds, and in some cases, pain meds, are sometimes under prescribed, although in the past pain meds were over prescribed.

I also have drugs that I either just dislike or would hate to ever need to or feel like taking, although they are still extremely important and have medical uses (Except the cigarettes, they never needed to exist), but they are just drugs I personally dislike or dislike myself taking: antipsychotics (specifically the typical antipsychotics), chemotherapy (They are extremely useful and life saving, but of course the adverse effects are debilitating, ironic that I smoke despite knowing this…), nicotine from cigarettes (an increased risk of a multitude of lung diseases, a multitude of cardiovascular diseases, a multitude of different cancers, e.t.c. I still like it too much, but also hate it…), nicotine from anything but tobacco (just doesn’t feel the same, nicotine from vapes always makes me feel so sluggish and lacks the fairly mild euphoria from ciggs. The research on why is interesting), and tricyclic antidepressants (there are much safer, more selective antidepressants available like SSRIs and SNRIs).

Drugs I find neutral (drugs that have uses or whatever but I just find them not really exciting to read about): THC (doesn’t induce a euphoria for me in terms of recreational use, and any medical use of THC is outdone by already existing pharmaceuticals, like it is approved to treat nausea but 5-HT3 antagonists are just so much better and don’t intoxicate you, I also live in Canada so it is legal for recreational use), acetaminophen (does nothing for my pain, although it is one of the safest pain relievers out at recommended doses), caffeine (caffeine feels like nothing when you have dextroamphetamine), antibiotics (except the tetracycline class which I find interesting. Antibiotics are life saving and all, but just very boring in my opinion), h2 antihistamines, proton pump inhibitors, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, SSRIs, and all the other drugs I didn’t recall while writing this. I found some of these drugs either interesting or scary in the past, but now they are just neutral.