Mike:Do Some Recovering Alcoholics Benefit Frombenzos Under Medical Supervion?
Question by george h: Mike:Do some recovering alcoholics benefit frombenzos under medical supervion?
The AA crowd acts like taking these medications is dealing with old demon rum himself? Are they never helpful as a part of a medically supervised recovery program? Has anyone seriously studied this? Given the high estimated prevalence of this disorder there should be a lot of opinions on this. I believe that AA is biased on this subject, because they will tend to exclude admitted medication users from their organizations. Has the scientific medical community taken a stand on this issue?
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Answer by freshbliss
If you need them to prevent seizures, I’m all for them. Booze is the only drug where you can die from not using it…so I’m for them. Nuff said….
And it says right in the literature that no one can exclude you as long as you have a desire to stop drinking.
There are plenty of people who have been to treatment centers in AA, and I’m guessing a lot of them were treated with various drugs at the time….it would be rather hypocritical of them to judge you, no? and if they do, screw ’em. They dont have to live your recovery.
And there are a lot of opinions on this….google “addiction medicine” and “acute alcohol withdrawl” – do a check in google scholar too….
Good luck
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