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Also among other reasons, alcohol is extremely taxing on the liver which is why ODing on benzos by themselves is virtually impossible but with alcohol the liver's already working overtime, can't be fucked with the benzos (or opioid or whatever CNS depressant) so not only do they stack, but it's amplified big time

Iunno hope someone finds this semi interesting. The reason for its danger aside from the aforementioned includes an ability to easily acutely fatally OD, propensity for addiction and the relative damage of addiction, societal problems between assault/drunk driving, accessibility and comfort because legal = not drug[???], above interactions etc. Should mention it also destroys sleep quality as sleep is an active process and turning down the CNS isn't really good for that, and this is excluding the glutamate part

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Recently abandoned my old career once I realized I could get into psychiatry and not have to go to med school as a psych APN, yeah I'm "just a nurse" but it's essentially the same job, just can't order things like TMS/ECT. Really wanted to get involved once I factually understood how fucking awful prescribing practices are and how little doctors know, but also it was a huge quality of life (and salary) improvement anyway. Still going to do a phd and while it's not my intent, being a "doctor" but not an MD and in medicine will trigger the shit out of physicians and that's a funny image to me. The shit I've seen from the 10 psychs I've been through just made me beyond upset knowing how they're just fucking their patients over due to laziness and ignorance as med school teaches virtually nothing, they have no incentive to do their own research and the FDA guidelines they parrot are absolute nonsense.

Even though responding to a post I do feel the need to apologize for the blog