Posted by Christ_empowered on August 4, 2011, at 10:41:53
In reply to Re: bullying 'addicts' » Christ_empowered, posted by sleepygirl2 on August 3, 2011, at 20:23:14
Hey man, if I could smoke up without getting paranoid, I'd be all over it. Natural, safe, effective (for many people--just not me); what's not to love?
I know in my situation what bothered me was that I was a vulnerable teenager given controlled substances...and then when I was dependent on them, it was "addiction" and, of course, it was all my fault. That's pretty lame.
I'm not saying uppers and downers are evil or whatever, but I am saying that they can cause problems and its not necessarily because the patient is "disordered" or whatever. My last psychiatrist apparently thought I'd outgrown my drug misusing phase, so she carefully Rx'd benzos w/o any issues. Other docs seems convinced that once you've been labelled an "addict," you'll always be a drug user...which makes me wonder: why go into addiction medicine if that's your outlook?
Anyway, excessively long rant...thanks for your post.
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