Posted by Squiggles on October 21, 2002, at 9:58:04
In reply to Re: My Klonopin (Clonazepam) isnt working » Squiggles, posted by Alan on October 21, 2002, at 9:35:46
With regard to benzos, there is good reason
to keep the patient on indefinitely or forever;
the withdrawals are so horrendous. Any argument
against this is an argument against all the
testimony and the Pharmaceutical Association's
caution about addiction; not to mention the
APA, the AMA, and all the texts. They all say
that benzos should be used short-term (3 months
and no more, or for crisis situations).There is nothing morally wrong with addiction,
but consider that if you start at a young age,
you will hit tolerance faster, which means you
will have to raise the dose indefinitely. Again,
with most benzos there is nothing wrong with that,
except that the side effects will accumulate with
age.As for putting someone on a psychiatric drug
for the rest of his or her life--this may be
necessary if the depression or mania or anxiety
is a life-long disorder. In some cases that
may be so. I was reading Kraeplin last night and
he kept charts on how often the swings occurred
in mania and depression. In some people it was
every 7 years, in some every 10, in some every 20,
in some only once in a lifetime, and in some almost
daily.With regard to anxiety, the disorder is so unnatural
that one must ask whether it is not infact a side effect
of a drug (i have witnessed this myself); whether it is
not infact a result of hyperthyroidism, or any other
20 or 30 possible causes OTHER than a disease itself.
To do that, the doctors must devote some more precious
time and eliminate the other possible and more likely
causes.Squiggles
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