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Scheduling is a bit different from a prohibition. Scheduling means that you’d need to ask a doctor for a prescription for a case of beer, for example. Just l
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
Scheduling is a bit different from a prohibition.
Scheduling means that you’d need to ask a doctor for a prescription for a case of beer, for example.
Just like certain kinds of cough syrup require a prescription.
- nradov 4y agoDuring Prohibition, ethanol was also available by prescription for "medicinal" purposes. That was a great racket for doctors who could charge anyone who wanted a legal drink. We already have a shortage of doctors. Doing something like this that would further increase their workload is flat out idiotic.
- PaulHoule 4y agoAlso I think it would be crazy to write a prescription for alcohol where benzodiazepines have largely the same effect with less toxicity.
- nradov 4y agoYikes. You can't be serious?
- PaulHoule 4y agoI am. I have a friend who was an alcoholic (w/ anxiety to go with it) who got a stiff Rx for klonopin, he used to take them every day but he gradually reduced his dose and I think now he only takes them occasionally. He has been sober ever since. My doc would say it is OK to substitute Valium for alcohol occasionally if you have social anxiety, I think a going to a party with a Valium enhances your fun much the way alcohol does. Used occasionally it is not any more dangerous than alcohol although it is potentially deadly to mix them with alcohol. Long-term they do inhibit learning and memory and also cause falls but so does alcohol and alcohol is bad for your liver, heart and other organs.
- nradov 4y agoThis is nuts. You don't understand what you're talking about from a medical perspective.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoCare to explain from a psychiatric perspective why you characterize that as nuts?