Recreational use

Quetiapine is not 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 (insufflation), there have also been reports of intravenous abuse and intravenous co-administration with cocaine.[41] This is commonly referred to as a "Q-Ball".[41] A 2004 letter to the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry provided an anecdotal estimate that up to 30% of inmates who were seen for psychiatric services in the Los Angeles County Jail were faking psychotic symptoms in an attempt to obtain quetiapine. Because not all inmates are seen for services, the estimated percent of the total inmate population who appeared to be faking symptoms to obtain quetiapine would be less than 30%.[42] Also known as "quell", "Snoozeberries", or "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 American Journal of Psychiatry 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”.[43]

Along with benzodiazepines, atypical antipsychotics have sometimes been used to "come down" off cocaine or amphetamines. When used in this manner the slang term "downer" is often applied. Quetiapine may be used as a substitute to addictive benzodiazepines or sleeping tablets such as zolpidem because it often induces similar sedative effects on the patient.

bzdaddict pisze:

tzn. przy mocnym przymrużeniu oka kiepski substytut benzo?

bzdaddict pisze:

Czy ja wiem, z braku klonów zjadłbym i to.

bzdaddict pisze:

Tak podejrzewałem, że rekreacyjnie można sobie to w dupe wsadzić jak resztę neuroleptyków ale spytać nie zaszkodzi ;P

tehacek pisze:

Ja biorę 25-50mg na wieczór od 2 tygodni, i muszę powiedzieć że nie czuję oczywistego działania kwetiapiny.

Rozumiem, że mowa o działaniu terapeutycznym.
A jak się ma sprawa z działaniem doraźnym, niekonieczne terapeutycznym, jakie objawy kweta w takiej dawce Ci daje?

Ja po okruszku tabletki 200mg mniejszym niż 1/4, w ciągu kilkunastu minut robię się zupełnie skasowany do życia, jedynym celem jest dotarcie do łóżka i sen.