Posted by fachad on September 4, 2002, at 1:08:18
In reply to Ecstasy board?, posted by shar on September 3, 2002, at 22:44:24
That was a perfectly appropriate question, IMHO. This board is about psycho pharmaceuticals.
The general assumption is that they are medically and legally sanctioned drugs, administered by a physician. But really this board is about chemicals that interact with our nervous systems, and change our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The differences between legal and illegal drugs are not as great as some people imagine. I am not condoning illegal psychoactive drugs; I am not even sure whether I wholeheartedly condone legal/medical psych drugs!
But the fact that the government has declared some chemicals illegal, and allows others to be aggressively pushed for profit, does not change the scientific fact that the distinction is far thinner than most people realize.
J. Allen Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School states this point quite nicely in his excellent book, The Dream Drugstore:
"The easiest brain-mind principle of all to grasp is this fundamental rule of psychopharmacology: many of the drugs currently prescribed by psychiatrists and other physicians...act on the brain-mind state control systems of the brain stem."
"What this means is that the most potent legal drugs in use today share common mechanisms with the illegal ones. A corollary of this principle is that the differences between legal and illegal drugs are never as sharp as the authorities who make and enforce the laws would have us believe."
You are also missing a very fundamental and critical distinction between recreational drug use and pathological drug abuse.
People will easily accept that someone can have a glass of wine or a drink with friends and not be an alcoholic. But if it's a chemical the government has declared to be illegal, suddenly everyone who uses it has an automatic "substance abuse problem". It really doesn’t make any sense, or even hold water from a scientific standpoint.
-fachad
> ok, if I'm understanding this correctly, the poster is merely asking whether benadryl will interact with the illegal drug he/she used.
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> Like, someone could post about having done too much coke and needs to take some benadryl and will it be safe.
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> Or crack. Or heroin.
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> I don't think the post is even appropriate for this board. IMHO, that is. Moreover, I tend to agree with lost boy and others about the person's approach to life. This board is full of people who are trying to get back on track, and someone bent on derailing just doesn't seem to warrant our "help" so s/he can continue illegal drug use.
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> Surely there must be an Ecstasy site somewhere.
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> Shar
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