Posted by JohnX2 on November 30, 2001, at 0:29:23
In reply to Doctors think benzodiazepines are spawn of satan!!, posted by 3 Beer Effect on November 29, 2001, at 22:22:03
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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