Klonopin Addiction?

[Alternity]

A follow up to my last post. What does it take to get hooked on Klonopin. How much would you have to take daily and for how long before you start to develop dependance? Anybody experienced with this please reply...
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[FordPrefect]

It's different for everyone. Your not gonna find a definate answer to this. Just know that benzos are extremely addictive and the detox from is as close to hell on earth that most people will ever know. Fun little fuckers though, aren't they?

 

[stp1993]

*eats a handful more kpins*
just dont abuse for more than a few days and your fine, clinical use is different as its naturally lower doses, but can still cause addiction.

 

[Dazzle]

(following taken from Roche pharmaceutical page- makers of brand name Klonopin)
Physical and Psychological Dependence: Withdrawal symptoms, similar in character to those noted with barbiturates and alcohol (eg, convulsions, psychosis, hallucinations, behavioral disorder, tremor, abdominal and muscle cramps) have occurred following abrupt discontinuance of clonazepam (kpins). The more severe withdrawal symptoms have usually been limited to those patients who received excessive doses over an extended period of time. Generally milder withdrawal symptoms (eg, dysphoria and insomnia) have been reported following abrupt discontinuance of benzodiazepines taken continuously at therapeutic levels for several months. Consequently, after extended therapy, abrupt discontinuation should generally be avoided and a gradual dosage tapering schedule followed . Addiction-prone individuals (such as drug addicts or alcoholics) should be under careful surveillance when receiving clonazepam or other psychotropic agents because of the predisposition of such patients to habituation and dependence.
In other words... if you have been taking them regularly for over a few months and think you might be running into a dependency problem ... plan ahead and wean yourself off them gradualy and you should be fine...

 

[Alternity]

So if I was to eat 1mg every day during the week and eat 2-3mg once on the weekend I should be ok? I really don't wanna end up in withdrawl... :-(
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"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals...and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant...earth would become paradise."

 

[PottedMeat]

I'm no doctor, but I'd think that what you are taking is O.K. of course, everyone reacts differently. I do know that an average script calls for 1mg a day.

 

[SovietContin]

I was taking 3mgs a day for anxiety a few years ago for a few months. One day I decided the absense of memory was pretty gay and I stopped taking them.
I recall NO withdrawal.

 

[Alternity]

Thanks Contin, I'll heed your advice and go wild until they're gone. ;-)
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"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals...and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant...earth would become paradise."
[This message has been edited by Alternity (edited 12 November 2001).]

 

[PhreeX]

Klonopin is a little easier then some of the shorter acting benzos such as Xanax, so go ahead, abuse the hell out of that script! You wont get hooked!
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