Posted by FredPotter on December 30, 2002, at 16:48:56
In reply to The Eternal Return of The Catch 22 » FredPotter, posted by fachad on December 30, 2002, at 12:37:19
Thanks everyone especially fachad. I attended an in-patient rehab centre a year ago. This was for alcohol. They were horrified to find me with Xanax on my person. They said that they were like "solid alcohol". When I asked them what they meant they said, "Xanax and alcohol are chemically related". "So are CO and CO2 but their mechanism of action is somewhat different", I thought to myself. They took them off me along with Zopiclone, which they said was also a benzo. "No it's not", I thought. There was also a patient in there who abused Klonopin. What sort of abuse is it that doesn't give you euphoria? This is the only reason I can think of for abusing a drug. I think I know enough about Xanax to know that no amount would give me euphoria.
On another occasion in a hospital setting the Xanax was stopped almost abruptly and I was in a very bad way. Their reasons were "addicive potential" and "paradoxical anxiety". I don't know about the second one, but what does addictive potential mean to someone who has been taking that drug or another from the same family for 35 years, on and off, mostly on? Does this confirm that I'm hooked? If so it must mean that I'm hooked but not abusing . And it was the British National Health Service back then which coerced me into taking the drug in the first place (Librium it was back then).
How frustrated this makes me feel. I have a close friend who starts calling me a "druggie" when I talk in this way (and she smokes pot which is for some reason not considered a "drug" in this sense). Sorry to vent
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