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Old 28-01-2004, 15:02   #79
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Cool Re: Re-classification Of Cannabis
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Originally Posted by dr wadd
Still doesn`t necessarily make it a bad thing. I do, and have for as long as I can remember and even as a child, suffered from terrible insomnia. Unless I`m exhausted to the point of dropping I`m lucky if I get 3 or 4 hours sleep a night.

About 18 months back I was prescribed sleeping pills, but no longer as the doctor is concerned that I will become "addicted" to them. As far as I am concerned, the insomnia is a result of a chemical imbalance in my brain, the sleeping pills help deal with that. I personally have no qualms about taking them for life, even if the official label put upon it is "addiction". I see no difference between this situation and someone taking insulin to deal with diabetes, both are chemical imbalances dealt with the administration of drugs.

I feel that addiction is an easy label to slap upon things which automatically gives it negative connotations.
I think I'd go back to Sociable's question "Why?"

You say that you have insomnia. You say that you feel that it is caused by a chemical imbalance of the brain, but is that what the doctor has actually confirmed.

For example, many of my family take thyroxine to combat a failure of their thyroids to produce enough of the hormone. This was confirmed by tests undertaken by the doctor and his/her staff.The treatment was to be put on thyroxine for life at a level that compensates for the loss i.e. to restore the natural level of a hormone.The same is true when a diabetic takes insulin.

If your doctor has established that there is a chemical imbalance and that for some reason it's not possible to adjust the chemical imbalance of the brain back to its natural state, then it's possible that sleeping tablets are the doctor's workaround to get you the sleep you need as prolonged sleep-deprivation is harmful to health sometimes fatally. Given that I don't know your medical circumstances, that would be my perception of the situation.

The sad thing about sleeping tablets is that unlike normal sleep hormones they are not natural and have side effects and sadly addiction is one of them.It's not an enviable position to be placed in and I sympathise greatly.
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