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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

You're joking, right? In 20 years you couldn't get therapy, address your issue or find other methods to cope with whatever occasion?

You seem confused. Klonopin, used occasionally, is precisely how my longtime psychiatrist and therapist urge me to cope with acute panic attacks. It is a treatment of choice. I think you might be somewhat out of touch with mental health issues. What a peculiar, presumptive post.

Your mental health care providers suck if they haven't been able to help you help yourself cope with...life. Mother's little helper is not the way to get through life, nor is it safe or sustainable.

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

You're joking, right? In 20 years you couldn't get therapy, address your issue or find other methods to cope with whatever occasion?

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Anonymous wrote:Is taking three or four a month too much?

If it’s 3-4 a month thats likely ok but that’s much more likely to escalate to daily use (and the physiologic dependence/difficulty going off of it that comes with it) than the people who are truly using it a a few times per year for root canals or transatlantic flights or whatever.

If you are having that degree of anxiety essentially weekly I’d look into therapy and/or an ssri if that’s not sufficient.

Also, Xanax is much more likely to be habit forming than klonopin (though with consistent use it’s a problem with both.)

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

You're joking, right? In 20 years you couldn't get therapy, address your issue or find other methods to cope with whatever occasion?

You seem confused. Klonopin, used occasionally, is precisely how my longtime psychiatrist and therapist urge me to cope with acute panic attacks. It is a treatment of choice. I think you might be somewhat out of touch with mental health issues. What a peculiar, presumptive post.

Your mental health care providers suck if they haven't been able to help you help yourself cope with...life. Mother's little helper is not the way to get through life, nor is it safe or sustainable.

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

You're joking, right? In 20 years you couldn't get therapy, address your issue or find other methods to cope with whatever occasion?

You seem confused. Klonopin, used occasionally, is precisely how my longtime psychiatrist and therapist urge me to cope with acute panic attacks. It is a treatment of choice. I think you might be somewhat out of touch with mental health issues. What a peculiar, presumptive post.

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

You're joking, right? In 20 years you couldn't get therapy, address your issue or find other methods to cope with whatever occasion?

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

Exactly. I hate these "sound bite posters" who have very little knowledge about these drugs but feel the need to chime in with "benzos bad" in every thread.

Benzos are bad. Very bad. And plenty of people with vast knowledge on this will tell you that. NP.

Like who?

Like the AMA.

The AMA does not say “Benzos are bad”. Yes taking them recreationally is bad. Taking them a couple times a year for panic attacks or episodic anxiety issues (like flying, or going to the dentist) is fine.
Signed, a doctor.

Sure, doc. But, and hear me out here, how about teaching your patients some coping skills that aren't drugs, or giving them drugs that have low or no recreational value, especially if they only need them once or twice a year?

Very few people truly need these meds. Lots of people want them. Lots of people don't want to deal with reality. These things are related, and a primary cause of addiction issues.

DP, how about you eff off. I hate ignorant people like you.

Please learn coping skills next time you get an infection or your BP is high.

Aww, the benzo addict is triggered. You can't think away an infection, and while calming down (a skill you clearly lack) can help lower your blood pressure in way, it's not going to fix any physiological problem that raised your BP in the first place.

Your anxiety is literally all in your head, and there are plenty of things you can do to wrangle it that don't involve medicating away the symptoms. And that's all your little benzo does: block the symptoms, temporarily. If you know that you get anxious when you fly (which won't kill you, BTW), you can unfsck that in your own head with therapy, meditation, breathing, simple lessons in acceptance, not being a control freak, etc. But you're a lazy candyass who doesn't want to do that work, so you pop pills. If you can admit that, there's no problem. But you can't, so you make these ridiculous arguments about how benzos "save lives". No, they save intellectually lazy people from the labor required to manage their feelings without drugs.

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

What do you mean when you say regularly? Do you mean every day? Then you are benzo dependent.

You would find that out if you quit cold turkey tomorrow after taking daily benzoS for 20 years

Exactly. "I've used benzos for 20 years and have no trouble, as long as I keep taking my benzos". Quit your benzo for 6 months and then come back to this thread.

DP, maybe learn how to read. PP said "as needed" which could be a few times a month or even a few times a year. No one is addicted to benzos in that scenario.

DP, and maybe you can also learn how to read. The out-and-proud, two decade user of benzos didn't describe their dosing. Their "as needed" could be daily, at bedtime. Or it could be once a year when she gets get a root canal. I doubt the latter because she's so defiant about DEFINITELY NOT being habituated to a mind-altering drug that she's taken for half a lifetime.

But none of us know because she refused to say.

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Anonymous wrote:Benzos send more people to rehab than any other drug, prescription or not.

I have used them regularly for 20 years as needed with zero problems. Not everyone who uses benzos becomes an addict. It depends on a host of factors, notably genetics. For those who can use them responsibly, they can be a life-saver, so please don't paint with a broad brush.

Exactly. I hate these "sound bite posters" who have very little knowledge about these drugs but feel the need to chime in with "benzos bad" in every thread.

Benzos are bad. Very bad. And plenty of people with vast knowledge on this will tell you that. NP.

Like who?

Like the AMA.

The AMA does not say “Benzos are bad”. Yes taking them recreationally is bad. Taking them a couple times a year for panic attacks or episodic anxiety issues (like flying, or going to the dentist) is fine.
Signed, a doctor.

This is key. They work really well for anxiety. Most anxiety sufferers don’t get anxiety only a couple of times a year, end up taking them regularly and become addicted. And there are many doctors who don’t warn patients that these are to be used only occasionally for severe anxiety.

Anonymous wrote:^and all chemo patients received the same prescription.

Anonymous wrote:Is taking three or four a month too much?

Anonymous wrote:I used xanax once for a medical procedure and I could absolutely see myself getting addicted. It was fantastic.