Posted by James K on January 2, 2006, at 17:20:58
In reply to Re: context of drug abuse » med_empowered, posted by Larry Hoover on January 2, 2006, at 15:25:24
Looking back over this thread, there is a lot of fascinating stuff here. Some of my thoughts are -
Yeah seroquel felt like alcohol to me. I think maybe at that point, I'd lost euphoria when I drank. So perhaps any impairment felt like alcohol. I've also always reacted strongly and sometimes oppositely to chemicals prescribed and otherwise. such as getting energy from cns depressants and opiates, and calming from stimulants. Feeling ssri's the first day I took them - not as anti-depressant but as something off. Benydryl drives me nuts etc...I agree with the concepts in the chairman's link. I think some societal proof of the concept is the huge number of people who stop or slow down drinking and drugs after college. or those who voluntarily enter rehab, or just quit on their own just because they want to, not from fear or ruination.
As to Larry's and others ideas of the context of drug abuse, I also agree. I've never been in prison, so this is slightly different, but I remember what the first psychiatrist I ever saw pointed out to me. I was spending all work day and week looking at the clock till I could leave, and all time off obliterating time until I had to go back. I wasn't in prison, but I was so unhappy and uncomfortable in my own skin, that I was rarely just "there" in the moment. It was also a time and place of poverty and violence, where the only social options seemed to involve intoxicants.
Summing up what I think about the inital subject which was "recreational" abuse of seroquel, in my personal experience, substance abuse can be for both fun and euphoria, and for complete escape, and anything will work for the escape. - psych meds, glue, listerene, self injury, nutmeg, masturbation - i don't know, whatever works.
Thanks for the info and for listening,
James K
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