Talk:Phenibut

This article seems to have been lifted from a website which sells this compound. I'll work on it a bit. Fuzzform 02:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be under muscle relaxants as well (assuming the bit about its similarity to baclofen is true)? 98.197.248.244 03:40, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Good question. I don't think so, though many anxiolytics fall under the same category. Phenibut is baclofen with a hydrogen instead of a chlorine on the 4 position. The two drugs have nearly identical effects, acting on GABA_B metabotropic receptors. Fuzzform (talk) 21:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Addition of redirection needed

I don't know how to do this myself, however someone might come along who does. Gabatropin is the marketed name for Phenibut, so I think a redirection link would be useful.

 - Check out:http://www.supplements101.com/Gabatropin_p/erggabatropin.htm
   for confirmation of my claim  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.113.246.237 (talk) 14:12, 10 December 2008 (UTC) 

Personal experience

Since there isn't much to this article, I thought I would add some of my own personal experience with phenibut. I use it occasionally for insomnia. In my opinion, it is not a long term solution for insomnia. Tolerance develops for me within three days of consecutive use. I have never had a problem with withdrawal, but I have heard that is possible, but not life threatening, just uncomfortable.

Phenibut does has a long half-life so usage should be spaced out. I would recommend a maximum of one day usage according to label instructions, then a minimum of two days off. One use a week would be preferable.

It does work well for insomnia, and tends to produce vivid dreams, which is interesting, but its usage should be carefully monitored.

When used as directed, I have heard of no major side effects. It will increase the potency of sedatives, so that must be kept in mind. Don't mix with alcohol (alcohol is a drug).

I see no danger in this remaining a legal supplement, as it does work well for short periods of time, and has an awful sour taste to it, thus preventing any drugging of unsuspecting people. It takes hours to begin working anyway, so that wouldn't be an issue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WickedEncyclopedia (talk • contribs) 03:21, August 23, 2007 (UTC).

I am in the long process of selling my house and moving so my Merck Index is packed away, hopefully when I find it again I can give some real pharmacokinetic data on phenibut.

This is just my own personal experience, hopefully more people will add to the discussion. WickedEncyclopedia 02:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I added the section on addiction and withdrawal based on recent unpleasant personal experience. I found it very good for insomnia for several weeks until I lost the bottle - and then withdrawal was miserable. I searched the net and found many other anecdotal reports of people getting addicted, so I thought it was important to add that section. Sorry to not have any firmer data sources than these anecdotal reports. - Patri Friedman, 05 December 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.189.225 (talk) 22:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Many if not most users would not become addicted due to tolerance and the headache/hangover one gets from overuse. If you need phenibut to break you out of an episode of anxiety, you can't use it regularly. It just doesn't work well at all after so many days. And what good is a supplement that does not work? Phenibut seems to work best when used on occasion. It is most effective if you take it a few times a week. If you take phenibut every day, you may be wasting the supplement, quickly building complete tolerance, and setting yourself up for addiction. We should also note that many people found withdrawal to be a negligible downside. Despite those claiming addiction, many feel no or very mild withdrawal effects after chronic use. I figure phenibut may have a milder potential for addiction that most prescription anxiolytics.

Plagiarism

This article is entirely plagiarized from an article by David Tolson on bulknutrition entitled "Phenibut Science" http://www.bulknutrition.com/?ingredients_id=64 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.123.190.121 (talk) 07:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

This edit [1] removed the bulk of the offending COPYvio, while still leaving minimal, useful information in the article. --Newbyguesses - Talk 19:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

This article still has info lifted from bulknutrition? I thought this plagiarized info was edited out long ago... bah. I mentioned its presence over a year ago (see top of this page). Well, when it's fixed completely, please remove the tag. Cheers, Fuzzform (talk) 21:17, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

I would bother altering it, as I know somebody will just reverse my alteration but the line "Phenibut is a daytime anxiolytic drug which does not exert a sedative effect." in my experience all depends on dose. When I take 5 grams at once on nights I can't sleep, a bomb could go off outside and not wake me. That's pretty sedating if you ask me... Propagandamachine (talk) 07:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

The article seems to me interesting, essential, balanced. Thanks.79.40.238.46 (talk) 14:14, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

This section about plagiarism seems definitely overcome, please allow its removal. The job seems quite correct. 79.7.42.87 (talk) 10:50, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

PEA receptor antagonism

A specific phenylethylamine receptor has never been identified, as far as I know. Thus, this information is misleading. I tried to change it once but someone reverted it. Seems to me that if anything about PEA is going to be mentioned, it should probably be said that Phenibut antagonizes the effects of PEA as opposed to it being an antagonist at a receptor that, unless I am misinformed, is not known to even exist. 74.80.58.186 (talk) 08:22, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree with this. Different phenethylamines have different receptors, and it makes no sense (to me at least) to claim a drug as a "phenethylamine receptor antagonist" unless it truly did antagonize all the different phenethylamine receptors, which I find immensely implausible. Bobber0001 (talk) 12:00, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

I just found a link to a study which found that phenibut did not have any effect on PEA induced anxiety in mice. Somehow I don't think there is any direct interaction as is implied in the article. See study here: "The anxiogenic activity of phenylethylamine in the social isolation test on mice" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1804703

Phenibut enhances dopamine levels

I read this claim in the article and thought this was very interesting. The cited source was only available to people with an Ohio state university login, so I asked the Redditors on /r/ohio if someone could not help me locate the article. A person kindly uploaded the article here for everyone to access. I promptly read through the article, and while it was very interesting to read about various experiments done on rabbits, nowhere was there mention of phenibut enhancing dopamine levels. It says it has an affinity for GABA_B and (at higher levels) GABA_A receptors, has anxiolytic and muscle relaxing properties etc. etc., but no mention of dopamine. A search for the word "dopamine" in the cited article in fact yields 0 results. I think the claim might have been added by an online vendor who wants to boost sales, since phenibut, in my experience, is a somewhat common recreational drug sold on the internet, and it is well-known that wikipedia is a huge knowledge base regarding recreational drugs. It therefore seems likely to me that a seller of phenibut would alter the article to say that it enhances dopamine levels, since this is linked to feelings of euphoria in many people's minds.

Unless someone can find the claim references somewhere in the article, proving that I simply missed it, I think the statement should be removed from the article. Bobber0001 (talk) 11:58, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes I was skeptical about this as well. Yet this article, which is cited for the information about PEA, seems to support the dopamine claim. Scroll down to "activation of dopamine metabolism." 74.80.58.186 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:51, 19 June 2011 (UTC).

I fixed cited source to the correct 2001 Lapin article.

Pharmacologist hacker zone

The role of gaba and glutamate may have been completely overstated, in the interpretation of both the anticonvulsants' therapeutic action and related issues; focusing on the ion channels blockade and related consequences seems much more promising... The widely accepted model of the command and feedback between receptors and ion channels is consistent with most of the clinical evidences.

This is a sample about the serotonergic action of a ion channel blocker:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9776325 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1572811/

The clinical effect depends on the individual balance: monoamine oxidases and monoamine transporters and neurotransmitters levels and receptors exposure. The person with relative exposure deficiency of 5HT2 under 5HT1 receptors experiences mainly inhibitory effects; the person with average and balanced exposure of 5HT2 and 5HT1 receptors experiences both excitatory and inhibitory effects depending on the actual brain state; the person with relative exposure excess of 5HT2 over 5HT1 receptors experiences mainly excitatory effects...

The FDA provides with warnings (about effects which may be explained with the serotonin release model together with ion channels block): http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm100190.htm

phenibut seem behaving as a ion channel blocker and a distributed neurotransmitters releasing agent; gabapentin in comparison seem behaving as a ion channel blocker and a releasing agent exclusively of hydroxytryptamine.

Tested legally on a rare patient reporting motivation increase and wakefulness and marked serotonin increase. cyproheptadine used as hydroxytryptamine release blocker and alternatively cyclobenzaprine used as a hydroxytryptamine 5HT2 receptor blocker.

The patient consistently reports immediate amphetaminoid effects and a subsequent prominent CNS inflammatory reaction (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16402109). The inflammation may be partially explained by increased amounts of hydroxytryptamine non conjugated with platelets which metabolizes into hydroxy-indol-acetaldehyde, in its demolition path ending in hydroxy-indol-acetic-acid. The patients reports the same effect with gabapentin and pregabalin but without any gain in physical energy.

Testing in a complex case together with antihistamines and monoamine reuptake inhibitors... providing with detailed information does not fit though.

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Toxicity

I am interested in any medical providers and their experience with toxicity of phenibut. I work in a physician assistant that works in an emergency room. Yesterday I had a woman that had been using this supplement for insomnia for about a week. This woman purchased this without adequate instructions off ebay and was taking (best that I can tell) large quantities. She was experiencing hallucinations, paranoid behavior, agitation, bowel and bladder incontinence. Unlike baclofen, phenibut has a long half life. This patient ended up getting admitted after 12 hours of observation and supportive care. Best guess, patient's last dose was 24 hours prior to her arrival. At approximately 36 hours post last dose, patient was still quite psychotic, confused, exhibiting some hypersexual behavior, and agitated. Her bowel and bladder incontinence was improving and had eaten. Patient did not exhibit any sedative effects from phenibut. Pawhocares (talk) 23:08, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

It is possible it's the body's own biogenic amines in the wrong amount and place being toxic, not phenibut itself. If there was a direct toxicological issue, something similar must fit all the gabalins, which are widely accepted, possibly because of their patents.

It behaves as a balanced neurotransmitter releasing agent both at CNS and periphery levels. It is not a sedative but an anticonvulsant instead. It tends to accumulate if dosed in excess. It seems more balanced than gabapentin and pregabalin and less toxic than carbamazepine. It is counteracted with ease by means of (TCA) sympatholytic antihistamines like cyproheptadine or quetiapine (CAUTION).

It requires prudential titration possibly with periodic analysis of plasma levels.

It must be considered as a drug in all respects. I cannot investigate beyond though. In doubt refer to amphetamines profile for caution. 79.20.12.122 (talk) 16:00, 11 December 2013 (UTC) 79.31.238.217 (talk) 14:19, 14 March 2014 (UTC) 79.40.235.79 (talk) 15:04, 30 March 2014 (UTC) 79.7.41.165 (talk) 11:15, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

I am sorry for any mistakes made while trying to help out with this article three people recently overdosed on phenibut so could be of some use if added to the article. It could be added to known effects of overdoses it also states that it caused bradycardia within the three people. http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/three-in-perth-a-e-after-legal-high-overdose-1.372723. 82.39.39.94 (talk) 13:10, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Those blokes took 50 grams of the substance which is an absolutely insane dose. The daily amount recommended by sellers actually ranges from 0.5 to 2 grams. Also, the problems they had may have been caused not by phenibut alone. 80.7.87.151 (talk) 01:30, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

That is interesting for adjusting and confirming the data already provided. The instruction sheet of the pharmaceutical phenibut is also very accurate! The bulk sellers of phenibut are just filling a gap, because the pharmaceutical companies are selling their analogues instead, which could be patented. The vendors of generic drugs do not address the costs for registering the missing ones. 79.20.9.18 (talk) 14:46, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I know one of them and it was phenibut alone none of them had taking any other drug that night to suggest all three had bradycardia after taking a very high dose of phenibut then say it might not have been caused by it seems a little strange to me would it have been different if it was five users come on. 82.40.126.7 (talk) 23:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Having an overdose from phenibut sounds rather ridiculous, as well as calling it a "legal high". You need to really try a lot to have any negative side effects from it. Where did they get their phenibut from? This substance seems to have been well researched in Russia and hence have quite a bit of scientific literature on it. No need to cite newspaper articles. 80.7.87.151 (talk) 22:52, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello again. It seems sharing the same safety profile of the other gabalins. Please do not be apprehensive in order not to burden this section... Thanx for the article. Cheers! 79.7.41.165 (talk) 12:47, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

And you, Sir, please do not make edits to previous messages as you seem to have done today. --80.7.87.151 (talk) 22:17, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Tips

This content is provided in the hope of avoiding the common problems reported, which may lead to an excess of alarm or awe; probably it is necessary until the mechanism of action will be proven, giving an explanation to the various apparently mysterious phenomena.

Integrate with titrated dosages of acetylcysteine for improving the metabolism of hydroxytryptamine and related hydroxy-indol-acetaldehyde into hydroxy-indol-acetic-acid. I also recommend integration with specific antihistamines for receptors' protection, as well as in the usage of any serotonin releasing agent primary amine. Try cyclobenzaprine or cyproheptadine if necessary; pizotifen may be a balanced compromise. The expert may even consider integrating with counted milligrams of amitriptyline and cyproheptadine mixed together (CAUTION), if CNS or peripheral inflammation and aggressiveness are a persistent issue; integrating with fragments of acamprosate for moderating the glutamate transmission if mental thrust goes beyond the necessary, or if weird anxiety arises. I guess threshold dosages of hydroxyzine and even therapeutic dosages of cetirizine are not protective enough. I have patently missed the target with doxylamine, hitting mainly histamine, and I have no experience with diphenhydramine.

Avoid risky combinations with vasodilators and prominent calcium channel blockers (cinnarizine manidipine dihydropyridines ethanol etc) and any potential serotonin releasing agent (amphetamine carbamazepine valpromide etc). A combination with the other gabalins should be safe adjusting the respective dosages, but seems to me a nonsense. I still do not see an absolute incompatibility with valeric acid and valproic acid, at least from a toxicological point of view...

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You guys are all seeing things from lenses of perception of a certain kind, but other layers of reality exist.

Every person is different, every genome. No medicine or natural substance is intrinsically "evil." Modern medicine and modern people are stupid, frankly, and do not appreciate the fact that people who overdose on a billion grams of this or that stigmatized substance, would act so with ANY substance - the contingent accidental substance in newspapers etc. then typically is treated in a dualist-Manichean attitude, when what is really underlying matters, in all these cases, is the following: the ADDICTION- and ABUSE-predisposed individual is the active causal factor of the moral enormity. These things have been practically scientifically verified these days: the brain polymorphism amphetamine-abusers possess genetically, those who actually benefit from its utilization therapeutically, whether as adjunctive anti-depressant augmentation or whatever, well, the "euphoria" is not a shared experience because genetically impossible in the literal sense as the tested beneficiaries of amphetamine therapy, not by accident, LACKED in their chromosomes, almost eerily, to a person almost, the hidden micro-genetic material productive of chaos in others, what made amphetamine "evil" in the case of others -

What the ADHD people say, in their silly identity-martyr politics, about how Adderall or Dexedrine calming them down, actually, makes total biological sense, I have realized, any intelligent person if analyzing the case, shall realize... The statistically average individual possessing the more common genetic type, indeed, shall experience psychopathic and schizotypic effects in using amphetamine, probably, even if all ingested is minor, a crumb... Therapeutic dosage the FDA well knows is arbitrary and individually-determined, but what I am saying, is, the ABUSER PERSONALITY preceded in existence the accidental catalyst of its own ABUSIVE NATURE - a CRUMB microscopic of Adderall, give to your average Joe plebeian, and the fellow might as well have taken 5 grams of street speed - what first, chicken or the ego?

The type of human person who shall be abusively oriented, shall be abusively oriented. Objectively, the drug elevates instead of debilitates, a significant number of unusual affliction-bound (usually) people. To deprive them in demonizing the medicine, is equivalent to felonious armed robbery, morally.

At this point in Western cultural degeneracy, I am not opposed to para-fascistic measures directed against individuals of amoral or extreme immoralist bent preventing them from getting their paws on things HEALTHY SANE SOUND adults use reason to gain benefit from in utilizing - for sure, this caste or stratum of people should NEVER be allowed 100 miles within grabbing distance, never be given the opportunity to abuse what cannot uplift them - so, sure, Phenibut is purely toxicological in this perspectival angle... But safely lassoed and prevented so, this extends to EVERY SINGLE medicine, heck, EVERY "THING" (GLUE-SNIFFING?) whatsoever for persons of dispositions involutional.

Has any American toxicologist sadly reviewing bodies of American teens and youth dead due (externally) to "Phenibut-related" causes, realized, in fact, what is being presented, is not the demonological essence of any drug or aid, but the way of life of nihilistic anomie enshrined nowadays as itself the norm-less norm...? Is Phenibut really scientifically viper venom, as imagined?

We cannot pathologize Phenibut because the minority of upraised people do not deserve to be thus slighted and degraded and illicitly dispossessed, all basically because...what?...tons of idiots exist in the world with pleasure-centered natures and idiots numerically predominate over non-idiots...? How can we punish them so, in viewing Phenibut purely negativistically? An undeserved indignity various sufferers do not merit. Already oppressed with uncommon pain-based issues and syndromes, why tax them doubly again and diffuse through the culture the notion Phenibut is a thing of riffraff, disordered folk only?

The way Phenibut helps people, in particular, with super-rare varieties of headaches, by talking to neurologists and others, I find astounding. But of course if given to some hedonistic herdling with no condition within Phenibut's range of remediation, they'll go nuts with it - but ANY drug or medicine they would mega-dose in overkill madness with, however, that's what you guys under-appreciate... I thankfully do not have these cerebral punishments, but I have seen eye-witnessed in several cases, face to face, how Phenibut truly helps rarer medical ailment sufferers... How cruel can I be, to countenance depriving them of what allows them a little break from hell, punishing them because most human beings are already psychopathic?

All reality is holarchic, the same principles outcropping in different contexts.

With those who really benefit from Adderall, I notice, and who I know for a fact are not abusing it, the exact opposite behavior elicited from the drug of what is seen in the stereotypical average person, is manifested: amphetamine, supposedly only a creator of mayhem, does nothing but utterly tranquilize and tear off the nihilistic edge from these people. Whatever psychopathic primitivism they might have had, is exponentially decreased almost wondrously. And I also know, first-hand, eyewitness, those people I have certainly known to have used amphetamine abusively, first of all, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, already possessed characterological traits not far from berserk psychopathy. What their system evidenced was intensification of the chaos pre-existent. So, give a person whose gene pool tends to amoral or hedonic pulsatile pastimes or whatever, a bit of Adderall, what happens? Their psychopathy is magnified; the drug treats nothing, and in the context, is evil. Only in the context though... Give a bit of Adderall to a person who is sincerely stating they are benefiting from Adderall, with a certain cast of cognition we over-simplify in "ADD" categorization, and LIKE MAGIC, they are living wholesomely on the medicine, revitalized in the most peaceful way. A friend of mine who is prescribed Adderall of similar description, when I know she is on the pill or under its influence, exhibits hyper-intellectualism, refined mannerisms, cultural delicacy, "euthymia" of the most ideal kind, no "manic" hyper-focus, simply polished human high-cultural qualities - how she was before certain sicknesses wore down her mind and body. In other words, no dissociative centrifugal danger - according to the INDIVIDUAL, shall it be centrifugal or up-building.

People who should NOT be given amphetamine, become manic under its influence, you see? - the absolute polar contrast of what we think of when we cognize the mass cultural stereotype of what a user of amphetamine is like - it is those who are ALREADY running amok, already berserk and wild, who slip into schizophrenia and other extreme states with amphetamine... I did not believe the ADD people at first, about how something so chemically similar to cocaine like Ritalin or Dexedrine, "calmed them", to the point, literally, of having a more even, slower heartbeat and pulse as it metabolized into them... Machines do not lie though... I used to think all of it was hogwash and venal big pharmacy exploitation, the only possibility not considered being these folk self-identifying as "ADHD", are actually telling the concrete truth, whatever language of the moment used...

Personal level: I was given a small dose (2.5 mg) of "Adderall" as augmentation to my anti-depressant therapy. I have a doctor-grade BP monitor inside my room, and my vital signs are notably more calm, sedated, when I ingest the medicine. I simply experience lessening of the crushing depression, no "MANIC EUPHORIA", simply relative reduction of the psychic pain, and, I notice, Adderall has seemed to make me read Immanuel Kant more... I mean, that's as humanly psychopathic as it gets, right?

The genomic individuality must be the explanatory factor, what else? We are blind to this in our false surrogate religion of pseudo-messianic egalitarian utopianism.

Our idiotic ideological egalitarianism is holding back medical progress, I swear, criminally. Platitudes about linear homogenized monochrome human nature, the facts increasingly force even Marxist scientists to retreat in militancy. O and I surely am "racist" for bringing up the fact, genomic-genetic inter-individual uniqueness, and personalized treatment proceeding therefrom, is where medicine has no choice to go if medicine wants any greater understanding... Well, the Soviet anti-heredity freaks are dead-wrong as the African and Aryan supremacist buffoons, sorry. "Race" is the least important, most unrevealing element medicine shall be learning about in the "genomic era" - science is going to have to work with the reality of not being able to rest upon generalities of empty quantitative metrics, and to dig deeper, far deeper the differences shall be revealed, far deeper than what we think of as "race" especially...

I hope reality offends all delusive Marxist fruitcakes. If racial differences, so-called, offend, wait until you learn about the greater differences in store Nature has for modern utopians. Start boycotting the cosmic order, ontological level, egalitarian levelers. Curse the Sun.

I wonder if there is an objective universe beyond my individual ego and its paltry identitarian games, hmm? Nah...

Phenibut from the perspective of a person dealing with those who have PERSONALITY DISORDERS (or whatever terminology is preferred) who, by genetic inclination (not mechanical inevitability - potentiality is that, only potentiality - free will is real still), hedonistically exceeded all rational sanity in their mega-doses so obscene, self-victimized themselves, cannot be one-dimensionally targeted as the single, lone factor in these pitiful emergency room scenarios...

The albino fish have shown us, our specific differentia as non-identical entities as human beings, our individuated natures, case by case, are the real "culprits"... The fact that some people are hedonic-minded fools, others are not. Let's protest the galaxy, yeah...

The old, arthritis-plagued ladies in Russia and fibromyalgia-tormented, or anxiety-ridden, or migraine-afflicted, people in America or wherever, probably lack certain polymorphisms, or, alternatively, enjoy certain polymorphisms, in their genetic substance, allowing them to benefit from Phenibut as reasonableness suggests - in a limited, moderate way giving them palliation of pain, none of us can lie and pretend we have felt, we can only use empathetic imagination...

I know an old lady, utterly rational, who, with no issues, and in collaboration with her "prestigious" psychiatrist, figured out Phenibut was one of the only things giving her unusual brain migraine syndrome, a bit of relief... Feel free to reprimand her because human beings of lesser capacity of self-governance and different makeups, happened to stumble upon what relieved her pain and urge her to feel psychotically guilt-ridden. Fight legislatively for Phenibut to be exterminated from the earth, because, idiots of brutal nature indeed exist in the world and normal people must pay the price for their lack of rational principle... It would be more logical to simply sterilize the human beings possessing animalistic traits, really - THESE are the types who made a drug like amphetamine "demonic", manifold in its applications of medical value (AMONG NORMAL SANE PEOPLE) - these atavistic personalities are evil, not this or that drug - ANY DRUG THEY WOULD ABUSE - barbarian-natured people, I learned in school, shockingly, sniff glue, and other cases of madness, and get hospitalized, overdosing on glue - so let us ANNIHILATE GLUE, right? - heck, implement non-coercive eugenics of humane kind, rather: no natural substance on earth is somehow innately "demonic"...

As to pharmaco-dynamic interrelation speculations, well, I don't need to speculate, but can state absolutely, because I have taken, through the years and in different (NON-ABUSIVE) ways, Phenibut, doctor-approved and all; I learned about Phenibut from my Russian-born doctor - his only problem with Phenibut in America and elsewhere, is the chemical impurities sometimes messing up a pharmaceutical-level medicine mercantile companies of the "BODYBUILDING STORE" variety get away with... Americans are so silly, resolve the cognitive dissonance: Phenibut is "good" and "doctor-stamped" in Russia but "of concern to the DEA" and a drug of lowlife trash only, pure and simple, in America. How to reconcile? The FDA is legally feudal superior to all foreign nations, their laws, civilization: the foreign leader Putin, is oath-bound to report like a good Boy Scout to the FDA and DEA weekly, or bi-weekly, isn't that in the Constution?

I happen to not hate Russians prejudicially, even if American, so sorry fellow Americans! I even learned the cosmonauts had a few things in their space-kits, more advanced than all American stuff: THE HORROR. Phenibut does not possess noxious interactive toxicity, I know more than first hand as ingesting all this stuff in my gut, with the following: no necessary negative interactive relation (or, how to phrase this?, 'for those not handicapped with hedonic apelike traits of personality, it is safe to use Phenibut with the following'...?) with Gabapentin, Valerian, Baclofen, Sertraline, Effexor, Cymbalta, Citalopram, Clonazepam, Diazepam, "Depakote", nor even co-administered literally at the very same moment, with something like Amphetamine enantiomers. That's all I care to list right now. HOWEVER: that is MY genomic differentia. What is yours?

I do observe, forthrightly, those with PREEXISTING SLEEP-RELATED MEDICAL PROBLEMS, people, for whatever reasons, biologically out of entrainment with the planetary turning, have SHARPLY SIGNIFICANTLY distinct experience with Phenibut and its cousins. I imagine "PUBMED" (GOD OF GODS) has junk about how Phenibut is a pseudo-hypnotic and stimulator of insomnia blah blah. Well, curtly, NO - but those people already screwed-up like that, then taking Phenibut in a wrongly conceived way, sure. So, once again, are we going to blame Phenibut or this or that medicine, for everything, or realize the equation is more than multi-factorial...?

Picamilon is on Amazon.com, these compounds are so "mainstreamed" today, with hundreds of positive reviews - the same chemical, self-same. Why aren't we hearing horror stories about Picamilon? All Picamilon is, is Phenibut commixed with a B vitamin. Seriously. Ponder - why no Pik/camilon tales of horripilation?

Is it possible, personalities Dopamine-genome wired to be likely abusive in relation to drugs or medicine, play an underemphasized yet vital role in screwing up their own lives from their own bad choices? Could human personality factors and even cultural factors, be playing a role in all this, hm...?

You have to dip into each person's genomic individuality if really wanting to know stuff. Chromosomes encode what an individual shall experience as either "good" or "bad", medicinally, to a significant extent; and Marxist foolery is not removing human inter-individual variation any time soon, so modern medical professionals need to be intelligent and start incorporating the genomic differentiation variable into things... Generalities of old, just don't do anymore...

Attitudinizing away and trying to guilt-trip whoever benefits from Phenibut, taking the medicine responsibly, and acting like simply because the FDA-DEA clowns in good ol' America don't quite know what to make of Phenibut, as it transcends their Manichean simplistic world-view, and is "NOT APPROVED", pretending all this superficial tissue of social conformist "concerns" is justification for pathologizing a whole sector of humankind, those who might be remedially benefited from usage, - this does not fly. I wish more universalistic-minded people edited Wikipedia - American-Israeli fascist socialist imperialist hubris gets old quick - why are not we seeking qualified Russian and other authorities of legitimacy to improve this article? All the article does is pander to irrelevant junk, mainly.

On Wikipedia's "GLUE" article, let's talk about the LETHAL DOSE of glue, and glue-sniffing, the solution to this problem, being, naturally, totally outlawing the sale and merchandising of glue. Anyone follow...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:B34B:A940:F051:AB0F:3A76:DE48 (talk) 00:04, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Remarks

I am cleaning this section and waiting for eventual claims prior to remove it.

79.40.237.234 (talk) 11:35, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

How it's sold in Russia

The lead section of the article states that "in Russia it is sold as a psychotropic drug." However, if you look at a leaflet of any phenibut product approved for sale in Russia at the State Register of Medical Products, it would be labelled as:

(1) (in most cases) a nootropic (ноотропное средство) or in the most recent instances as a stimulant and nootropic (психостимуляторы и ноотропные средства) by its Russian "pharmacotherapeutic group";

(2) N05BX (Other anxiolytics) by its ATC code.

Does it all warrant saying it's sold as a psychotropic drug? --PhGamma (talk) 01:57, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Introductory sentence

Could we possibly come up with a better introductory sentence (and the lead in general) than the following: "Phenibut[note 1] (contracted from β-phenyl-γ-aminobutyric acid) is a central nervous system (CNS) depressant and derivative of the naturally occurring inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)"?

I'm referring to its definition as a central nervous system depressant. Surely it is, but it's an incomplete and somewhat inaccurate description of the substance, given, e.g., its certain stimulant effects and ability to improve cognitive functioning. Even the website at the "External links" section gives "Central Nervous System Stimulants" as one of its classification codes. --PhGamma (talk) 02:08, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

It looks like all of the claims of nootropic effects come from Russian journals. I don't consider Russian pharmacology journals to be reliable sources -- articles in them commonly involve massive conflicts of interest. More reliable sources appear to treat the drug as a GABA analog and CNS depressant. Looie496 (talk) 13:07, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

What sort of a conflict of interest (I suppose you mean a commercial one) would bear articles dating back to the Soviet era? --PhGamma (talk) 20:44, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't know about the Soviet era. Currently it is not uncommon for articles in Russian pharmacology journals to appear with advertisements for the products that are examined, and it is very common for the authors to be associated with groups that sell the products. Looie496 (talk) 13:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Please bear in mind, Americans and our Israeli brethren are racially superior and inimitably possessed of all authority - especially concerning intellectually demanding topics. I am almost certain that is also official Wikipedia policy, almost certain... Anyway, I did not even know the poor besotted Slavic Gentiles had even learned how to write and read, that's beautiful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:B34B:A940:F051:AB0F:3A76:DE48 (talk) 00:17, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

I don't mean to denigrate Russians or other Slavs, I have worked with a number who are brilliant. But the unfortunate fact is that, for a variety of historical reasons, most Russian medical journals are low quality. See http://www.ete-online.com/content/5/1/15 for an account written by two well-informed Russian doctors. Looie496 (talk) 13:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

No mention of addiction?

Among nootropics enthusiasts, this stuff has a rep for requiring dosage increases beginning within a few days of regular use, and for being highly addictive, with withdrawls as bad as benzodiazepines or barbiturates. I was kind of surprised to not see that mentioned in the article, even though it's well documented. See, for example, the (free) article 'Phenibut dependence'(Samokhvalov AV1, Paton-Gay CL, Balchand K, Rehm J.) here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23391959

There are also 'Phenibut yielded withdrawal symptoms and psychosis. Drugs for cosmonauts--now marketed as dietary supplements online,' 'Withdrawal symptoms after Internet purchase of phenibut (β-phenyl-γ-aminobutyric acid HCl),' and other articles covering the problems... 'Phenibut, the appearance of another potentially dangerous product in the United States,' 'Acute behavioural disturbance associated with phenibut purchased via an internet supplier,' etc.

No coverage of even a single bad thing about Phenibut? 173.228.54.27 (talk) 04:19, 18 September 2015 (UTC)