Posted on 02/22/2005 1:21:45 PM PST by dead
My hubby got a script for the Welbut stuff and it made him
a zombie. He couldn't stay awake for two hours on the stuff.
He quit taking it.
That's about what I did, when they went up over $2. It seemed so wasteful to be burning $2 a day. Kind of like buying a new pair of socks or underwear every day and just throwing them out after one use. Or like having $700 in the bank at the end of a year and setting fire to it. And probably no healthier than spending $2 a day on cable television.
Why would government care about the costs of addiction, when any portion of that cost they pay, they use someone else's (my) money? Addiction creates jobs for many suckling at the government teat.
Or alcoholics (alcohol being more addictive than pot)?
Well if you think about it.... the reason drugs will never be legalized is that the money flowing through 3rd world country banks is paying off loans those 3rd world nations owe to ... er.... first world nations. If this drug ( and I have been reading about it for several years) is true and a big drug maker signs up for it.... it will be very interesting how it plays out.
Makes more sense than any of the bilge spewed by WOD supporters.
"Doubt it...you gotta want to quit!!"
I guess it's not well known any more, but LSD was also tested for psychiatric utility way back when. Timothy Leary and that crowd stirred up such a fuss that all testing was halted (except military, and that went nowhere).
This is far from scientific, but people have undergone dramatic, permanent personality changes, good and bad, after one administration of LSD. Early accounts of alcoholics being cured circulated.
People have also gone entirely off their rockers. Very dangerous.
My point is, though, that it's not impossible that a hallucinogen could produce personality changes that would "cure" addiction.
I have a brother who recently relapsed. He's almost fifty, started out as an alcoholic, and now it's drugs. He says cocaine, but it might be meth. I've just come to the sad conclusion that even if I think he's clean, he may not be, he's lied so many times. He's rotten to the core. I had never really "given up on him" until now. He knows Christ, but he just throws everything away to be "tweeked." I even suspect he got loaded the day before my mother died of cancer. He's truly sick. Doesn't it just cripple you with pain sometimes?
I don't doubt that at all! My post was suppose to be humorous about getting the DUers off the kool aid! :)
Oops, guess I lost track of the thread, sorry.
Some people were talking about addicts going right back on drugs after the physical addiction had passed. Thought you were commenting on that.
Nope...I wouldn't make such a statement because I broke an addiction and have stuck with it for over 3 years! Quit smoking cold turkey!
It's ok though...I didn't take offense!
I want a new drug
One that won’t hurt my head
One that won’t make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red
One that won’t make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I’m with you
When I’m alone with you
I want a new drug
One that won’t spill
One that don’t cost too much
Or come in a pill
I want a new drug
One that won’t go away
One that won’t keep me up all night
One that won’t make me sleep all day
One that won’t make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I’m with you
When I’m alone with you
I’m alone with you baby
I want a new drug
One that does what it should
One that won’t make me feel too bad
One that won’t make me feel too good
I want a new drug
One with no doubt
One that won’t make me talk too much
Or make my face break out
One that won’t make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I’m with you
When I’m alone with you
I read about this a few years ago. Considering the alternatives, I recommended it to a drug addict I know. I HATE DRUGS!!!!!!!!! I wish I knew how to make them less appealing and available. It's a cinch that the war on drugs hasn't done anything but punish honest people while the dealers get rich.
Having friends and family who are addicts, some of whom have died from OD's and others who have ruined their lives and their families lives, I will pray for your brothers tonight.
God bless you guys...
Actually, that would work. (warning: link is to an Onion Article, Rated R)
Wellbutrin makes some folks incredibly nervous.
Several friends never made it all the way back. Things are still just a little too..., well, do I have to talk about it...?
"Several friends never made it all the way back."
That's why I say LSD is just too dangerous.
"well, do I have to talk about it...?"
Of course not.
The best thing about acid was you could drink a ton of beer....
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