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To: Solon who wrote (59913)	10/12/2004 3:32:52 PM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

SOLON, posting that article by Meehan was simply a waste of your time and misleading. The author made some statements that clearly do NOT refer to benzodiazepines as opposed to street drugs. You wrote: but rather to emphasize that people choose their behavior as a reward to their organism in some physical, social, or emotional aspect. The compelling or causal influence of such rewards was not my point. You overlook that when it comes to benzos, patients are prescribed this class of drugs as a remedy and the vast complexities of the drug and implications for the patient are rarely if ever discussed in a short doctors visit, so where is the CHOICE...the informed consent?. Most doctors are not even aware of the problems they create for their patients. The bottom line is that a person who is ill and, in cases of anxiety or insomnia, unable to or not seeing the need to investigate what is being prescribed to them are vulnerable, especially if they listen to their idiot doctors who put them on this poison. But herein lies the big issue. Are patients supposed to follow their doctors advice or try to second guess them> I don't know about you but medicine is not my profession nor is pharmacology. I am not expected to know the serious implications of dependance and when I pay my doctor for his/her professional advice it is not unreasonable that I be protected from harm...NUMBER ONE! When you quote Heather Ashton "Recreational use of diazepam, alprazolam, lorazepam, temazepam, triazolam, flunitrazepam and others has been reported in various countries" out of context like you did, you are again twisting the intent of her works which am well familar with. Recreation use of benzos is a very very small portion of the roughly 10% of any given population that is currently using them. Are you saying that the roughly 20 to 25% of older folks who are given these drugs to control them in nursing homes have some kind of choice? So, answer this please.....are these huge numbers of nursing home residents addicts or physically dependant? The answer is obvious. So the article you posted is irrelevanr at best.