Posted by marshall26 on July 3, 2007, at 3:21:23
In reply to Re: The Benzos, posted by linkadge on June 30, 2007, at 8:02:52
> I agree. Any drug can be problematic for some people.
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> I would say that, in general though, that it would be a mistake to assume that all people are going to abuse benzodiazapines.
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> Its like alchohol. Over time, some will grow tollerant of the sedative properties of alcohol, and require ever increasing doses to achieve the desired effect, but that doesn't mean that everybody becomes and alcoholic. A lot of people use alchohol responsably.
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>You don't have to "abuse" benzos for them to turn on you should you wish to discontinue. It can happen to anyone who takes a prescribed therapeutic dose every day for more than a month or two (this is from personal experience). There’s no good predictor of who will become physically dependent on a benzo just like there’s no good predictor of who will become physically dependent on an SSRI. The “addictive” personality theory is a bunch of BS. Do the people who have withdrawals from SSRIs “abuse” their meds?
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