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buzzycrumbhunger

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5. Pharmacy tech here...

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 08:21 PM

Mar 15

I’m always grateful I’ve never needed any psych meds because they seem to me to create bigger problems than what they’re treating. So sick of people coming in all tearful because we can’t fill a script yet and they’ve mysteriously run out early. “You miscounted!” “I dropped my bottle in the bathroom sink!” “I’m very careful and only take it when I need it!”

Doesn’t matter if it’s mood stabilizers or opiods (though they’re the WORST—why are people allowed to be on a short-term pain killer for YEARS?!) The whining, the anger, the pathetic begging. How is this better than what you were originally trying to treat?

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Generation Xanax: The Dark Side of America's Wonder Drug [View all] Mosby Mar 15 OP

Benzos are horrible drugs SheltieLover Mar 15 #1

Couple quotes Mosby Mar 15 #2

Wonder drug Bvb1979 Mar 15 #6

They are great for panic attacks Diraven Mar 15 #3

Benzos can be REALLY helpful in hospice. But, even then some people don't react well to them. I am mucifer Mar 15 #4

Pharmacy tech here... buzzycrumbhunger Mar 15 #5

Psych meds in general don't create more problems for the vast majority of people taking them. The problem as mentioned tulipsandroses Mar 15 #8

My reaction is probably tainted by my years doing acute care transcription... buzzycrumbhunger Mar 15 #9

"Bad" practitioners are present in all fields. I don't know what you have seen so I can't speak to that, but I will say tulipsandroses Mar 16 #10

It is horrible. It's like the pt is a fire hydrant and they all have to mark it with a diagnosis. 58Sunliner Mar 16 #11

"These were never really designed to be long-term medications," said Dr. Haran Sivakumar tulipsandroses Mar 15 #7