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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 168043" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I guess it may be kind of common. Here's what Wikipedia says.</p><p></p><p><em>"Addiction and abuse Quetiapine is not currently classified as a controlled substance. Reports of quetiapine abuse have emerged in the medical literature, however. While the drug is usually abused through the crushing and snorting of tablets (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insufflation" target="_blank">insufflation</a>), there have also been reports of intravenous abuse and intravenous co-administration with cocaine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel#cite_note-26" target="_blank">[27]</a> A 2004 report recorded a 30&#37; rate of inmate use in the Los Angeles County Jail, where the drug was obtained by inmates faking schizophrenic symptoms and resold under the street name "quell".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel#cite_note-27" target="_blank">[28]</a> Also known as "Susie-Q", the drug may be more commonly abused in prisons due to its capacity to be regularly prescribed as a sedative and the unavailability in prison of more commonly abused substances. A letter to the editor which appeared in the January 2007 <em>American Journal of Psychiatry</em> has proposed a 'need for additional studies to explore the addiction-potential of quetiapine'. The letter reports that its authors are physicians who work in the Ohio correctional system. They report that 'prisoners ... have threatened legal action and even suicide when presented with discontinuation of quetiapine' and that they have 'not seen similar drug-seeking behavior with other second-generation antipsychotics of comparable efficacy'. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[29]</a></em></p><p> <em>Along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepines" target="_blank">benzodiazepines</a>, atypical antipsychotics have sometimes been used to "come down" off <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine" target="_blank">amphetamines</a>. When used in this manner the slang term "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downers" target="_blank">downer</a>" is often applied."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 168043, member: 99"] I guess it may be kind of common. Here's what Wikipedia says. [i]"Addiction and abuse Quetiapine is not currently classified as a controlled substance. Reports of quetiapine abuse have emerged in the medical literature, however. While the drug is usually abused through the crushing and snorting of tablets ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insufflation"]insufflation[/URL]), there have also been reports of intravenous abuse and intravenous co-administration with cocaine.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel#cite_note-26"][27][/URL] A 2004 report recorded a 30% rate of inmate use in the Los Angeles County Jail, where the drug was obtained by inmates faking schizophrenic symptoms and resold under the street name "quell".[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel#cite_note-27"][28][/URL] Also known as "Susie-Q", the drug may be more commonly abused in prisons due to its capacity to be regularly prescribed as a sedative and the unavailability in prison of more commonly abused substances. A letter to the editor which appeared in the January 2007 [I]American Journal of Psychiatry[/I] has proposed a 'need for additional studies to explore the addiction-potential of quetiapine'. The letter reports that its authors are physicians who work in the Ohio correctional system. They report that 'prisoners ... have threatened legal action and even suicide when presented with discontinuation of quetiapine' and that they have 'not seen similar drug-seeking behavior with other second-generation antipsychotics of comparable efficacy'. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel#cite_note-28"][29][/URL] Along with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepines"]benzodiazepines[/URL], atypical antipsychotics have sometimes been used to "come down" off [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine"]amphetamines[/URL]. When used in this manner the slang term "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downers"]downer[/URL]" is often applied."[/i] [/QUOTE]
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