Posted by utopizen on July 25, 2003, at 13:27:28
In reply to Re: you'll love this one » Saltmarsh Rose, posted by MB on June 27, 2003, at 19:08:33
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> ps. Dexamyl: why don't we get meds like this anymore? A speedball in a purple
> pill shaped like a heart? Man, those were the days!Because benzos didn't exist then. Now you can take a benzo like Klonopin if you get jittery with an amphetamine. I have ADD and Social Anxiety Disorder, so the combo is a must.
It would be cool if Klonopin was combined with a stimulant, but they haven't even bothered to make Klonopin in an SR form yet. Let alone make Dexedrine Spansules more high-tech (it's just as bad and antiquated as Ritalin SR, Spanules came out in the 50's or 60's and were the first long-acting med of any kind).
Which is weird- they made Klonopin wafers, but not an SR. Maybe they thought an SR would be dismissed by docs who just think "oh, long half-life, let's just help this patient's co-pay with a generic he has to take 3 times a day" (I take K 1mg 3x/day).
Yeah, I know K has a long half-life, but even Shire tried to claim Adderall replaced the need for a long-acting when they pitched it to docs. 5 years later, they come out with Adderall XR. I had to take Adderall 2x/day, and many others did too.
Speaking of Dexamyl, in the 60's docs got tons of it as samples to give to their patients, along with Desbutal (Desoxyn and Nembutal, meth and pentobarbital in a single pill). Either the industry foresaw the FDA telling them to stop that or the FDA told them to stop it. Either way, I think only a Schedule IV drug (like Provigil) is allowed as samples.
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