Addiction and AnxietyAddiction and Anxiety
Author: news_poster
Posted: 10/24 12:00 AM
A reader wrote that her son, an opioid addict, developed a new addiction to alprazolam—a medication prescribed by his physician to treat opioid withdrawal while starting buprenorphine. Without getting too detailed about buprenorphine, I will note that the opioid withdrawal that occurs when starting buprenorphine is short-lived, and does not generally warrant treatment with an addictive substance like [...]
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Source: Patient Times
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Author: hatmaker510
Posted: 10/24 01:25 PM
Great post. I love reading your stuff about anxiety. When I was still using, I was one of those people that was WAY over-treated for my "anxiety". 6 mg of xanax per day was prescribed to me (and I was abusing that). For a time I thought I'd die without them. How would I deal with all of my anxiety? So I took a leap of faith and learned to meditate. Guess what - it helped! For a while that is, then I came to a wonderful realization. Aside from a couple of panic attacks here and there, the cold hard truth was that I HAD NO ANXIETY. It was just like you said, I couldn't cope with normal, everyday human emotions. I'm doing quite well now, with nothing to medicate my "anxiety" - me - with no higher power and I'm doing just great. Go figure. 
... From suboxforum.com