Posted by jazzdog on February 23, 2002, at 14:57:14
In reply to Re: benzos for alcoholics? » jazzdog, posted by Elizabeth on February 22, 2002, at 22:43:08
I have dealt with hundreds of alcoholics over the last twenty years, including myself, my ex, and several members of my family. Six friends have suicided, one lies in a coma after falling drunk down a staircase, another couldn't stop drinking with hep c and now has cirrhosis, two died in car accidents, and another set herself on fire when she passed out with a lit cigarette. Alcoholism is a fatal disease, and I have seen dozens of cases of benzo use leading to relapse, and not one case of it not doing so, though it's sometimes taken a few years. Sure, if someone jumps off a hundred foot cliff into a raging current, they might survive. But to do so is, in my opinion, foolhardy in the extreme. Also, in my opinion, anyone who has not spent many years locked in the desperate, life-and-death battle to get sober is not really in a position to advocate the use of drugs that would endanger that oh-so-precarious sobriety.
- Jane
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