oh jesus, like 30% of people have a horrifyingly bad reaction to ativan. Like total psychosis + amnesia shit, I sure hope it doesn't wind up being a popular drug because that is gonna be a -problem-
For several reasons, yeah. It's one of the two things that can kill you during withdrawal (the other being alcohol).
I take it very occasionally for panic attacks and the first time I took it I did tell my husband that I finally understood why people would take drugs.
Man I wish I could do that one recreationally. Five hours of falling backwards through the spider dimension though, whoof. Just gets tedious after a while.
It's a disparity from my (admittedly reductive) 30% claim yes, but between the datasets I am basing that claim on getting purged and the shocking lack of independent public studies on the topic (wtf??) I'm at a bit of a loss to provide concrete sources for it being that high (how convenient for me...). From the data available though you can see it's closer to 5% that has a "severe" psychological reaction outside a clinical setting, if you'd prefer to assume that number is correct and that I was exaggerating for effect I sure wouldn't blame you. IMO that's still unbelievably high for a medication that has a risk of becoming even more popular in recreational usage.
Benzos can fucking wreck you. I get that a lot of people don't want ordinary anxiety meds, especially with stuff like the side effects of ssris but benzos are way more risky than they seem
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phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 307d
Funny if it was product placement.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 307d
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 307d
oh jesus, like 30% of people have a horrifyingly bad reaction to ativan. Like total psychosis + amnesia shit, I sure hope it doesn't wind up being a popular drug because that is gonna be a -problem-
Lhianna@feddit.org · 9 pts · 307d
For several reasons, yeah. It's one of the two things that can kill you during withdrawal (the other being alcohol).
I take it very occasionally for panic attacks and the first time I took it I did tell my husband that I finally understood why people would take drugs.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 307d
Man I wish I could do that one recreationally. Five hours of falling backwards through the spider dimension though, whoof. Just gets tedious after a while.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 307d
I think that whole class of drugs are a bit horrifying.
deceiver@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 307d
what is your source on this?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
I'm only intimately familiar with the hospital reporting numbers and unfortunately I no longer know of a publicly available source on the side-effect incidence rate of in-hospital usage (for many depressingly obvious reasons, thank you Donald Trump). However benzos are extremely well documented as having diverse reactions, and the label is extremely clear that even low therapeutic doses see severely adverse psychological reactions at rates of around 1% in the population (delerium, hallucination, self-harm, etc.) (page 17). This is predictably exacerbated by being in a clinical setting and, coupled with a tendency for the side effects of benzos to have superlinear increases in severity as dosages go up, is a very worrying trend on it's own.
It's a disparity from my (admittedly reductive) 30% claim yes, but between the datasets I am basing that claim on getting purged and the shocking lack of independent public studies on the topic (wtf??) I'm at a bit of a loss to provide concrete sources for it being that high (how convenient for me...). From the data available though you can see it's closer to 5% that has a "severe" psychological reaction outside a clinical setting, if you'd prefer to assume that number is correct and that I was exaggerating for effect I sure wouldn't blame you. IMO that's still unbelievably high for a medication that has a risk of becoming even more popular in recreational usage.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
Benzos can fucking wreck you. I get that a lot of people don't want ordinary anxiety meds, especially with stuff like the side effects of ssris but benzos are way more risky than they seem