Posted by Alan on December 27, 2002, at 21:28:23
In reply to Re: Solutions in search of a problem » Alan, posted by Squiggles on December 27, 2002, at 20:20:15
> I appreciate your efforts to defend your
> position. However, as many are probably
> tired of hearing about this, let me say
> a few parting words on the matter: both
> medical authorities as well as the experience
> of over a thousand subscribers to benzo.org
> overrule your "statistical/scientific" ideas
> and your medical status. I have good reason
> therefore to go with the former party.
>
> Sorry
>
> over and out.
>
> Squiggles
==============================================And others might observe that no one is denying you the right to do so.
I have no medical status. I have nothing to offer but some hope, evidence in context and perspective (the World Health Organisation comes to mind), and my own personal experience.
I have no reason to feel on the defensive as the question was simply posed as to what I thought of the website known as benzo.org.
I have posted numerous times about the subject and as to why perhaps one thousand participants of any website, or any one particular school of addictionologists, prove anything at all about the general effective cost/benefit ratio of anything let alone psychotropic medication.
1)One can't extrapolate for the general population based on their individual experience.
2)Statistics do not apply to individual cases.
Those are the only two fundamental principles that I try to offer others information on this bboard with some meaningful perspective in mind.
Alan
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