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Benzos Drinking with Xanax

LaurenfromMI

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I can honestly Xanax is about the best drug ever for anxiety and I do take it very sporadically for that explicitly for that reason. I am quite aware of how horrendous addictive said drug is whether you abuse it not. I take two .5 mg twice a day if I need it. I took one mg earlier....maybe 4 hours ago. If I have a few beers right now, will it make me black out, make the buzz better, or what? I also heard the same thing about Ambien which I also have. Now, I don't get why the hell you want to take a sleeping pill while drinking....but anyway. What's the deal everything saying it's great to drink on downers?
 
BTW, I have no tolerance to Xanax. I just started taking it and it fucks me up pretty well on just one .5. My tolerance to alcohol is not that great either. I hardly ever drink, but when I do, I tend to get smashed.
 
Drinking and taking benzos is a bad idea to begin with, but if you are going to then I wouldn't drink very much(maybe one beer). It also sounds like you have a low alcohol tolerance as well, so that is even more reason to drink less. If you do drink too much you will probably black out.

I don't recommend it, but be safe
 
So far, so good. I think my alcohol tolerance is higher than I thought. Just one 1 mg Xanax plus some beers, feels fucking great. It could also help I came out a lesbian today....even though everyone already knew it already. Seriously, I don't think I'm gonna have as much a drug problem as I had before. Being in the fucking closet will you kill you.
 
The xanax may be making you think "so far so good." I have thought that and then not remembered saying so..... I'm just saying be careful
 
whoa... you have past drug problems?

no it is a terrible idea to mix xanax with alcohol period if you have past drug problems and tend to get smashed with alcohol. You definitely shouldn't be doing so on the advice of people in the online community.

Ask your doctor and be completely honest about your out of control drinking. Let your doctor advise you on mixing possibly dangerous drugs in a way you have tended to lack responsibility.
BTW congrats on coming out of the closet! Don't cloud an important powerful positive life move with potentially dangerous ones. You don't wan't to "cloud" these moments literally either.

You may want to speak with friends / gay or lesbian support groups/ or shrinks if you feel the need to be "high" in order to express yourself as who you are.

Good luck and Congrats and Be Safe plz
 
Mixing benzos and alcohol is generally not a smart idea, xanax is a potent and short-acting benzo which makes its dose-response curve while interacting with alcohol that much steeper. One beer could feel like one and a half beers on xanax, but two beers will quickly turn into five beers...and on and on. This is a harm reduction site, so, if you DO decide to drink on your xanax, be very careful and drink very little.

Just repeating what everybody else has said, good luck!
 
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