Re: slightly off topic: drug elimination and withdrawals

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:32:56 -0500, Squiggles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I know bupkin' about psychopharmacology but
>i can recongize a withdrawal symptom when
>i feel one.  I wonder if anyone can help me
>find an answer to this question (it's 
>significant to a puzzle i'm trying to solve).
>
>Is it possible to undergo withdrawals from
>a habituated drug, through pretty severe
>elimination (e.g. voiding or diarrhea on a
>daily basis)?  I know that it would depend
>on the drug, but in general, are there *some*
>drugs that lose their full life through
>elimination and cause withdrawal that way?

Just because the metabolites might be excreted this way, doesn't mean
that stimulating these excretion mechanisms would increase the
metabolism. If it were merely flushing out accumulated blood levels,
water flushing might make a difference that were measureable if you
had extremely sensitive equipment, but that difference wouldn't make a
noticeable difference in the experience.