Posted by med_empowered on January 9, 2007, at 21:25:48
In reply to miltown/equanil/meprobamate, posted by harry_in_philly on January 9, 2007, at 17:57:21
I dont know of any docs specifically, but I've read that since NY and some other states have started requiring triplicates for benzos (but apparently not most other schedule III-V meds), Miltown and chloral hydrate have suddenly made a comeback in those places, mostly because docs don't want to deal with DEA or the triplicate system.
As for barbs...just from what I've read, some docs will do 1-2 weeks with seconal or nembutal, but longer than that I imagine you'd need to have a long history of demonstrated non-response to safer meds along with a pretty good psych. history (no suicide attempts, overdoses, recent drug abuse, that sort of thing). That said, I imagine in the same states where chloral hydrate+miltown are coming back certain barbiturates (phenobarbital, maybe aprobarbital) would also be popular, since they're schedule III-IV.
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