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Re: Alcohol + anxiety...whats your experience?

Posted by bassman on October 7, 2006, at 9:16:31

In reply to Re: Alcohol + anxiety...whats your experience?, posted by Phillipa on October 6, 2006, at 21:43:29

I just had a Thunderbolt of the Obvious. Maybe alcohol is like other psychoactive drugs (think SSRI's and the different benzos)-it works for some people, some people it makes worse, it depends when you take it and how much. Looked at in that light, it's just another drug in the anti-depression and anxiety arsenal. I guess the big point there is to take the moral stigma away (and the over-blown claims of respiratory depression, which is often the same thing, dressed in scientific garb) and as with other drugs, be empirical-does it really improve the quality of life? What are the hazards; notice we don't ask that question enough for prescription meds, in my opinion, like the cases of diabetes and psychosis from some of the new AP's. Or liver damage/failure with Serzone. End of rant-I just am not in the "let's take any new med and see what happens" school of thought.


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