So.
I'm not one to question a doctor's decisions.
Often.
However, I do take issue with some circumstances.
Such as when a patient comes to him in need of psychotropics, a patient who has an extensive drug abuse history, including a proclivity for Xanax, is honest about said history, and the doctor feels the need to prescribe the patient Klonopin. The maxium recommended dose of Klonopin.
I won't get into the nitty-gritties of these pharmaceuticals because I've been told such blog posts are "boring" (Hi Dad!), but I will say this:
Klonopin and Xanax are both in a class of drugs call benzodiazepines (Librium was the original. Valium is it's most famous member, Restoril a bit lesser known, and then some I've never heard of including Restas. And Erimin. Which, I'm sorry, sounds like an elf name.) "Benzos" are schedule IV on the controlled substance lists in North America.
In other words, they're potentially addictive.
Let's put it this way: teenagers like to pilfer them from their parents' medicine cabinets and sell them at school.
I'm merely a social worker, so I don't know much about pills, but it seems to me a really, really BAD idea to prescribe a person with a serious drug abuse history, a person that hasn't used drugs in a few years and wasn't on benzos before his visit to the dealer doctor, the maxium dose of a cousin to the kind of drug that this person historically abused.
Just saying. ->
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