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A friend keeps overdozing on meds

What she really needs is help with her mental health, which is a lot harder to get than pills. I swear that's half the problem with the world, when you are in a bad way and need comfort and people to talk to they fill you up with dope.

If she's suicidal she shouldn't be taking Benzo's, people who take them are at a much higher risk of suicide. First of all they're already depressed and then their inhibitions are lessened and they do things they wouldn't do if they were straight. Like commit suicide. I know two people that have done so when they were taking benzodiazapines like Xanax, Valium or Lorazepam. One was a family member and the other was one of my best friends.

It doesn't take much of an overdose with benzos to knock you out either, but it's pretty hard to kill yourself with them accidentally. Around here even if they let you fill your prescription without seeing the doctor again you still have to wait 30 days, so you won't just have 100 of them laying around.

I still don't think the best thing for her is some government intervention. Maybe a family intervention where they move in and stay with her and help her out emotionally. It sounds like you're too far away for that unless you just take a months vacation and hang out with her, at least a week. She needs a friend, but yeah with the life she's had I'm amazed she's doing as well as she is.

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NFL Superbowl poll

Yeah it used to be a tradition. I had three or four annual Superbowl polls on the old site, maybe more. Time to resurrect it seeing as how only half of these teams will be left come Monday morning. So who did you vote for Southern Comfort, New Orleans? Hope it's not that Patriots vote, that's the only team I don't like.

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This place needs a bar or house band or something to draw in a crowd.

Philly? You're out west aren't you supposed to be for the Chiefs or one of the LA teams?

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This place needs a bar or house band or something to draw in a crowd.

45 minutes and two beers later at least I've learned how to do it. Thanks Roccoooooo

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This place needs a bar or house band or something to draw in a crowd.

Okay I edited it a dozen times because I tried making one by looking at your "anonymous avatar" poll and it still didn't work so I closed it. It says it's closed buy it doesn't appear to be... is it?

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Help-QA feature poll: Changing Anonicons

So how do I make a poll Rockster?

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A friend keeps overdozing on meds

When you say overdosing do you mean they stop breathing and are rushed to the hospital, or that they take a few more pills than they are supposed to and act a little weird? If the doctor doesn't have a problem with it I'm not sure why you do.

It sounds like you have a plan to completely ruin her life. Bringing social services or the cops into her world is not going to help her at all. I have never met anyone who had their children taken away and it was a good thing for the children. Most of the time it is a horribly traumatic experience for everyone involved except the social workers who seem to enjoy tearing families apart. Must be some kind of power trip.

As far as the cops go unless you just absolutely hate this person don't get them involved in her life. Just recently in Nashville where I live a mother was worried about her son because he was depressed and had some anti-depressants and he sounded drunk when she talked to him. So she called the cops and asked them to look in on him and make sure he was fine. They kicked his door down, shot him and killed him. One of their body cams was "inoperable" and the other was charging in the car... right. The cops got a nice paid vacation out of it and said something about him grabbing a knife when they kicked the door in and rushed into his apartment. I guess so, if I heard someone kicking my door in I'd be holding more than a knife.

I don't believe in flashbacks either, and I would know trust me. I think you're sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. If you're really worried about her ask her partner if they have noticed her having problems. If the person she lives with and her doctor both think she's fine she more than likely is.

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Hello everyone Happy new year.

Were you the clue way back when? I remember the avatar but not the name.

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Nasty grandmother.

I had a nasty grandmother too. I wonder if there's one in every family?

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I guess I'm going to let it go...

Why do you still see an ex so much? You need to just stay away, it's like forbidden fruit that looks a lot better than it really is.

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