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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: re: Re: Valium
Message-ID: <277@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 22:10:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 22:10:43 1985
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>From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
>Subject: Re: Valium
>Message-ID: <191@bbnccv.UUCP>
>Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 09:05:19 PST
>
>Used appropriately, Valium is a safe, useful drug.  That includes all the
>readers here who have used it for muscle spasm or even (horrors) mild
>anxiety.  They needn't worry too much about Jerry's scare story, which
>describes hard-core abuse.

I agree.  I posted my original article because a  large  number  of  people
(some  of  whom  are  doctors)  are unaware that Valium can be abused, with
drastic  consequences.   There  have  been   cases   of   people   becoming
accidentally  addicted.  Though  I haven't read it, I believe the book _I'm
Dancing as Fast as I  Can_  documents  one  of  these  from  the  patient's
viewpoint.

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