Posted by janejj on November 30, 2001, at 0:57:56
In reply to Re: Doctors think benzodiazepines are spawn of satan!! » 3 Beer Effect, posted by JohnX2 on November 30, 2001, at 0:29:23
The GP i am seeing loves to prescribe me lorazepam. I said i didn't want any and he said he'd prescribe some anyway. So now i have a little stash of lorazepam.....do they have any street value? LOL.
Regards J
> Mr. Beer,
>
> I tend to agree with your feelings. However
> I have found that my psychiatrists will hand out
> benzos like candy. But any other doctor, be it
> a gp, neurologist, etc. avoids the benzos like
> the plague. Maybe benzos are like job security
> for the psychiatrist since addiction will keep
> you coming to their office. The other doctors
> aren't trained to handle the addiction.
>
> PS. I am addicted to Klonopin. But the stability
> it provided me is well worth the price. The medication
> is not dangerous like smoking and when I have a
> better solution tapering off the med slowly should
> not be a big ordeal.
>
> I think most of the psychiatrists that I have
> met have a fairly consistant opinion about
> buspar sucking. They seem to be trending towards
> low doses of novel anti-psychotics to treat anxiety.
> What we really need is a clean medication that
> blocks the serotonin 5-ht2 receptors without
> goofing with other parts of the brain. Then we
> would have a very clean and quick acting
> anxiolytic which can be combined with an SSRI
> to reduce SSRI side effects and irritability.
>
> -john
>
> > For some odd reason nowadays, most doctors think that benzodiazepines are the spawn of the devil. I don't see how one could become a Klonopin addict because it takes 2 hours to work & half the time you cannot tell it is working (even though it is). There is also no (altleast for me) no euphoria from it. I think we are now paying for the days of the 1960 & 1970s when prescriptions for valium & amphetamines (speed) where handed out like candy to about a third of the country.
> >
> > Doctors like buspar because it has low abuse potential, but i've never heard of or talked to anyone where buspar actually did much of anything. Buspar takes a month to work & has been proven to only work for a specific type of anxiety disorder- generalized anxiety disorder & has zero efficacy in trials of social phobia, a disorder which Klonopin is the best drug for (besides Nardil, a fairly dangerous MAOI).
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