Posted by yxibow on November 14, 2008, at 1:47:20
In reply to Re: why does alcohol work better than benzos for me?, posted by Valero on November 13, 2008, at 15:50:44
> Why is it frustrating? I mean what's wrong with a couple of drinks to help one relax. Just imagine for one year you had 2-3 glasses of wine a day, then stopped abruptly. Compare this to taking a Valium a day for one year then stop abruptly.
> Some months ago I gave up drinking a bottle of wine a day of a multi-year period, nothing, absolutely no craving or withdrawal. Then last week I( stupidly) took a 10mg Chlorazepate tab. (60hr half life) 5 days later I'm still pestered by typical benzo withdrawal symptoms. Benzodiazepines suck, and suck big time.
> Invest in a nice bottle of Bordeaux my dear,
> ŕ votre santé!
>If you stopped having 2-3 drinks of wine a day and you were using it to drown depressive anxiety or just plain anxiety, you would have withdrawals possibly, depending how susceptible to alcoholism and other things that you are, not to mention the weight gain from it if your metabolism is pretty slow.
Alcohol does work on GABA among other things.
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