Posted by rjlockhart37 on September 27, 2014, at 22:20:05
In reply to Re: phenobarbital - a drug still of good use, posted by rjlockhart37 on September 27, 2014, at 20:30:57
i found this article from 1997 about benzo withdrawl and phenobarbital.....
"the pharmo rationale for phenobarbital is long acting, and little change in the blood of phenobarbital occurs between doses. This allows safer use of progressively smaller daily dose. Phenobarbital is safer than the short acting barbiturates, lethal doses of phenobarbital are many times higher than toxic doses....[short acting ones] and signs of toxicity are easy to observe...." Phenobarbital has low abuse potential and intoxication usually doesn't produce behavioral disinhibition......
and here we go..."patients view phenobarbital as more of a medication than a drug of abuse"
that's exactly....what i was saying, it doesnt give the euphoria the other stuff does....even at high doses, it just causes you to stumble and really be out of it.....amobarb and secobarb are intoxicating much more.....
it is safer, yes, and it is good for anxiety....old medication, still good..you don't get high off it, and that is why it is less abusable....
the whole article talks about this and other withdrawl medications......
not a scholar but understand distress.....
"unheard pain, is the told through good company"
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