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Solutions in search of a problem

Posted by Alan on December 27, 2002, at 20:14:38

In reply to Re: Scary Benzo web site- Opinions? » Alan, posted by Squiggles on December 27, 2002, at 19:18:35

> Excuse me if my message has a hint of rudeness
> to it; my aim really is to inform rather than
> insult: your attitude does make me wonder
> whether you have an axe to grind. Do you happen
> to belong to a detox centre funded by drug
> companies by any chance, or by the government
> agencies which are in cahouts with the drug
> companies? Because it seems that experience
> (of others, obviously not yours) of benzo addiction
> seems to have eluded you altogether.
>
> Squiggles
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No and no.

1)No distinction between addiction and medical dependency is the website's philosophical downfall.

2)One can not extrapolate for the general population based on anecdotal or individual experience. The vast majority of competently diagnosed, perscribed, and managed patients undergoing bzd therapy are helped far more than they are hurt. That's the basic criteria on which the manipulation of bodily systems are determined to have an acceptable cost/benefit ratio.

The term "medical dependency" refers to a situation in which the drug continues to exert a beneficial or even indispensable effect, but there is an acknowledgement that the user is not functional without the drug and cannot abruptly stop taking it.

Tolerance is not required for medical dependency, but it may occur. Most often it occurs to some extent in early use and then the effect of the drgug stabilizes. If tolerance were to continue developing indefinitely, any beneficial effect would rather quickly be outweighed by toxicity. Undoubtedly there are situations where this has happened with many types of drugs, not merely psychotropics, but all it really proves is that there are careless and incompetent doctors just as there are careless and incompetent practitioners of every profession, trade, vocation, etc. It doesn't prove anything special about psychotropics.

The distinctions exist because they reflect the way reality naturally sorts into groups of similar experiences. They're not hard to understand. They're simply inconvenient to certain points of view.

Alan


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