Posted on 12/15/2023 2:09:47 AM PST by RandFan
"It was an all consuming fear that I would just stop breathing in my sleep, but still, all I wanted was to take more."
"I approached my own son in the street asking for drugs, that's how low I was, benzos just destroyed my life."
These are the stories of two separate people with the same catastrophic addiction to a prescription drug.
Thirty years apart in age and 200 miles apart in distance, their stories are scarily similar.
I meet Rory Maslen (they/them), 21, at their university flat in Leeds. As Rory sank into the sofa, they look at me with a timid smile.
They're about to talk me through haunted years. The ones filled with an undying desperation to guzzle more of the drug that was killing them.
Inside the four walls of Rory's university room once lived anxiety, depression and what they thought was the remedy - benzos.
"There were weeks at a time when the only reason I would leave my accommodation was to go and pick up a few boxes of pills.
"I was literally eating pills by the handful just to get through the day."
For Will, a lifetime of trauma, grief and isolation drove him to dive head first into what he calls "benzo oblivion".
Taking 100 pills a day and selling benzos to fuel his addiction, Will was on the edge of death.
After a 20 year battle with benzos, Will tells me he tried to take his own life. The amount of benzos he took knocked him out for four days, but still he continued using.
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I tried them once and they knocked me out for the night.
Pretty strong they can be.
I only demand the use of the pronouns "they/them" when my other, "subordinate" personalities are trying to take over my body.
What slimy little bassturds they are.;-)
Can’t /wont read any article that refers to a singular person as the plural “them”.
These drugs should be outlawed. They really mess up your brain chemistry and the window for dependency is very small - a matter of weeks. Going cold turkey off them can literally kill you. That should be enough for people to steer clear of them but most folks don't know how dangerous and addictive they are and a lot of doctors don't either. But the companies making them do. . .
What is / are benzos and what are they for? I don’t take any drugs except for an aspirin now and then.
>> I meet Rory Maslen (they/them), 21, at their university flat in Leeds. As Rory sank into the sofa, they look at me with a timid smile. They’re about to talk me through haunted years.
**HE** is mentally ill. Before the benzo, and worse after the benzo. The root cause is **HIS** mental illness. When will we stop humoring and cowing to and enabling this particular mental illness?
They’re nicknamed “downers” they literally do that, put you down. Heavy feeling in the head and knock you out. That’s what it did to me when i tried them I was out for a good 12 hours.
Generally prescribed for anxiety/depression/sleeping issues.
Some folk build a tolerance to them over time. This is where it becomes addictive I think.
The issue is now doctors are reluctant to prescribe but you can get them off the net.
They’re also cheap because generics are available
Some familiar brand names: Xanax, Valium, Zopiclone(?)
As I understand it users build tolerance to these.
A better alternative most definitely is CBD oil for anxiety and for those wishing to get a good nights sleep.
No need to take these pills any more
for many (most?) people benzos can be far more additive than heroin or nicotine, and far harder to kick, causing mortal seizures if withdrawal isn’t done slowly, methodically, and very painfully ...
Fortunately I never got hooked on them when I did try them
Just for sleeping issues CBD oil does the trick.
I would heartily recommend that
“Can’t /wont read any article that refers to a singular person as the plural “them”.
Agreed. It means the writer will be presenting “their truth and morals” not truth and morality. IOW, justification of the central issue. In this case drug addiction. The author is most definitely contributing to drug addiction.
It boils down to simple morality. Modern manufactured drugs present an overwhelming compulsion which subverts all law and moral standards. The addict essentially becomes an absolute enemy humanity. Imo this is why Muslim courts prescribe the death penalty to drug dealers and users.
I was prescribed Xanax once for pain. I only took it once and I think it knocked me out. I realized there was no way I would ever take it again and threw the remainder away.
I refused to take on a client that wanted me to identify her as they/them. I thought overnight about whether I could do it, knowing that ethically lawyers are encouraged to take on unpopular causes, and decided I could not let myself get bogged down in that person’s mental illness. So I declined the representation.
“they/them”
Bigger problems than a drug habit.
I agree. I’m not a lawyer, but I would think it would be difficult to represent a client who was dishonest and/or insane (unless the plan was to plead not guilty by reason of insanity).;-)
Smart. One thing I have found is the pronoun thing is mostly a virtue signaling trap. I worked for a tech university. You can’t always look at a person’s name(because foreign) and determine what sex they are so everyone is a “they”. Even if they give their pronouns, they are still a “they”. We never use Mr. or Miss or Mrs. It has saved me from the pronoun trap as a matter of professional courtesy.
Thank you Jesus for steering me away from this filth and keeping me near your grace and love. Please help those souls caught in this horrible trap of drug addiction and show them your light. In God’s name I pray.
“My esteemed collegue” is genius!
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