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BigmanPigman

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4. I was told the same thing by my doctor
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:49 PM
Aug 2023

about 15 years ago. It had helped me a lot as well as Xanax and both were suddenly on the "NO" list. I was told varying stories, from being addictive to causing dementia. I was pissed off since I had been taking them for over 10 years and then out of the blue they said no one can have either one. They also prescribed me Ambian for sleep and then tried to tell me the same thing...long term dementia, etc. I said BS! My 80 year old father needed Klonopin and was told the same thing a few months after starting Klonopin. What the fuck?!? He was 80!!! He didn't care about addiction or dementia bit the doctors have gone to the extreme these last few years due to all the younger people who are abusing these illegally obtained meds. They screwed it up for the whole country and now senior citizens can't even get pain killers for more than 3 days, even after surgery.

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