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Wellbutrin/Zyban as a tx for addition
I would like to know the most recent information available for the treatment of addiction with Wellbutrin/Zyban. I was in a one-hour siminar on antidepressants this week and the speaker mentioned Wellbutrin as a new tx for alcoholism. My 19-year-old son is battling an addition to pain pills. He has been in rehab, IOP and goes regularly to NA meetings, but continues to relapse. Is it possible that Zyban might help him kick this addiction? Your response would be most appreciated.
You are overly complimentary, but I appreciate it. Though my working profession is as a technical writer for software developers, I find that incredibly hard compared to writing about something I really know and have lived on a daily basis: drug addiction and everything and everyone that goes with it. It is, in some ways, a world in unto itself. When I write about drugs, whether it's my own personal reminiscences, speculation on a new drug, or just blathering on about some new sociologically oriented theory, my mind is crystal clear, the topics, organization and vocabulary are as if they were already written for me, just waiting for me to copy them down.
In between seizures and scrambling for work in the suddenly moribund computer industry, I'm trying to find the right angle, the salient topic that will allow me to write "from the heart" of my life as an addict -- with all the things I've seen and felt -- and the hope I see in certain quarters. But then, who wants to read another "I got stoned, then I got sober" book? BOOOOOOring!
Gotta keep working on that angle. There's no more important subject to offer fresh ideas on -- it's just something that starts coming out of me when I start a post on one of these forums. But to be a success, there are publishing requirements that have a lot to do with marketing and sales that must be addresses and satisfied first. Otherwise, I'll just have another unread manuscript. Oh well, enough. We'll see ... I'm not dead yet!
In between seizures and scrambling for work in the suddenly moribund computer industry, I'm trying to find the right angle, the salient topic that will allow me to write "from the heart" of my life as an addict -- with all the things I've seen and felt -- and the hope I see in certain quarters. But then, who wants to read another "I got stoned, then I got sober" book? BOOOOOOring!
Gotta keep working on that angle. There's no more important subject to offer fresh ideas on -- it's just something that starts coming out of me when I start a post on one of these forums. But to be a success, there are publishing requirements that have a lot to do with marketing and sales that must be addresses and satisfied first. Otherwise, I'll just have another unread manuscript. Oh well, enough. We'll see ... I'm not dead yet!
Brilliant concept, my brother. I think we were on the brink of a revolution, untill certain doctors started getting involved, after all, if they are not ALLOWED to help us, we just quit going in for treatment.......as I did, I am proof of that. I beleive there is hope. My new doctor has told me this. I have a 2nd appt. this week coming.
How are you doing? Your post ^ above was so well put together, I feel like printing it out and hot glue-ing it to the wall, here and everywhere I go! lol You are the picture of understanding, and common sense, even w/ all your trials and tribulations....
How are you doing? Your post ^ above was so well put together, I feel like printing it out and hot glue-ing it to the wall, here and everywhere I go! lol You are the picture of understanding, and common sense, even w/ all your trials and tribulations....
I'm not sure when the meaning changed - I think it was in the early part of the 20th century - "drugs" stopped meaning healing and relief of pain and took on an entirely sinister meaning. "Drugs" became synonymous with moral degradation, social irresponsibility and default of character - in other words, a defective, unworthy individual.
The 60's, which in many ways really happened in the 70's, didn't help by glamorizing LSD, pot and coke (honorable mention to speed). Coke is a drug with the capacity to destroy society as we know it and may still succeed in doing so. You can't blame anyone for their revulsion at cocaine and crack.
However, the net effect of this situation is as follows: ANYONE who wants a drug for a so-called illicit purpose has no trouble obtaining it anytime they please. It's the solid citizen with the cancer pain that follows all the rules and trusts in their medical professionals that winds up in unrelieved agony. If they're like a lot of people in society without the support structure most of us enjoy, they frequently end up divorced, friendless, penniless, frequently homeless and often justifiably suicidal.
All this because someone put out a couple of celluloid reels of garbage entitled, respectively, Reefer Madness and Cocaine Fiends? Obviously, the process of turning drugs in the public mind from something good into something so evil it's virtually ignored by the leaders of our society runs deeper than a couple of films.
There needs to be a revolution among patients not being properly cared for because of this ridiculous narcophobia that seemingly infects all segments of our medical industry. My dream is to organize all the untreated or inadequately treated pain patients as worldwide as is practical, and simply refusing to pay another dime to anyone until their complaints are heard and their needs are acted upon.
What would happen if every pain patient in the Western word simply stopped paying his medical bills? Think it would get anyone's attention????
The 60's, which in many ways really happened in the 70's, didn't help by glamorizing LSD, pot and coke (honorable mention to speed). Coke is a drug with the capacity to destroy society as we know it and may still succeed in doing so. You can't blame anyone for their revulsion at cocaine and crack.
However, the net effect of this situation is as follows: ANYONE who wants a drug for a so-called illicit purpose has no trouble obtaining it anytime they please. It's the solid citizen with the cancer pain that follows all the rules and trusts in their medical professionals that winds up in unrelieved agony. If they're like a lot of people in society without the support structure most of us enjoy, they frequently end up divorced, friendless, penniless, frequently homeless and often justifiably suicidal.
All this because someone put out a couple of celluloid reels of garbage entitled, respectively, Reefer Madness and Cocaine Fiends? Obviously, the process of turning drugs in the public mind from something good into something so evil it's virtually ignored by the leaders of our society runs deeper than a couple of films.
There needs to be a revolution among patients not being properly cared for because of this ridiculous narcophobia that seemingly infects all segments of our medical industry. My dream is to organize all the untreated or inadequately treated pain patients as worldwide as is practical, and simply refusing to pay another dime to anyone until their complaints are heard and their needs are acted upon.
What would happen if every pain patient in the Western word simply stopped paying his medical bills? Think it would get anyone's attention????
...Don't let that Dragon stop you now. Run, Jog, bike ride.....read, study.....keep going...flood your mind w/ knowledge!! Knowledge is power. Keep trucking, your almost there! We're here for you.
Cin thanks for the e-mail I was really in an unexpected pit...Cin, you were so right..then I went to post on my laptop and couldn't connect it took a **** I got so tied up in trying to fix it I forgot about the "DRAGON" in my ear! So I think if you are in a bad way kicking, **** up your P.C. and fix it! IT works!ROFLMAO! Well day 8 almost over whew! aI love all of you out there. Thanks for being my guardian angels when mine is snoozing!
Peace and Light of the Lord on you all!
Wiz
Peace and Light of the Lord on you all!
Wiz
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