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[novapsyche]

'Father of Valium' dead at 97

Light a candle. Anyone have any Valium stories they want to share?

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[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

The only Valium story I have is that I was given a small dose of it prior to my LASIK. Wonderful stuff for helping one to zone out. :-P

[spankgrrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, combine it with alcohol and you'll probably wake up in the morning with all of your friends and family sworn never to speak to you again. I can't remember a THING after I take it, serious memory loss. I know respectable people who've woken up in police cells after shoplifting/fighting/criminal damage and have no recollection of it. SO use with EXTREME caution.

Other than that, its great.

Great for sex, too, great for overcoming inhibitions.

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

I used to be addicted to Valium. I was dating a verbally abusive man and he always had good drugs. He let me try it once and I really liked it - I've always been an anxious person. The following pattern emerged - he would get fucked up on alcohol and pills (and crack, although I didn't know that until later) pick a fight with me, refuse to stop insulting me until I was crying hysterically, then he would give me valium to calm me down and I would fall asleep. When he broke up with me he took all the drugs with him and then I went through withdrawal. Which SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED.

[spankgrrrl.livejournal.com]

valium withdrawal is living hell.

[daiwainscott.livejournal.com]

(off-subject) i like this icon.

[eleri.livejournal.com]

They had to give my 15 year old son valium, priot to having a major ingrown toenail worked on. Owowow.

[kittenkissies.livejournal.com]

How do they know he is dead? He could be just on an O.D. of valium.
Valiummy.
The last drug I abused. Snorted the insides of a capsule of it to go to sleep, because I didn't want to get drunk. Overslept anyway...

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I was given a dose of Valium when I went to the emergency room, during my first breakthrough experience. zenrabbit was really worried about me. I knew that Valium would end the effects of the DXM, even on plateau sigma. It was very calming.

What I find interesting about Valium is its importance in American history. America has always had a drug culture, and this one hit the mainstream, right up until about the time Reagan declared a War on Drugs. As a student of American Studies, I'd like to know more about its impact on American culture, especially during the turbulent decades of the '60s and '70s.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

That's horrible psychological abuse. I'm so sorry.

No one likes being with someone who picks fights. He was doing his best to make you dependent upon him.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I've had it for a while.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

That does sound pretty painful.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

A capsule of Valium? I thought they just came in tablets.

[kittenkissies.livejournal.com]

Diazepam or Fluorazepam is generic valium.
It comes in a capsule. I dunno which it is...I do remember snorting both.

[kittenkissies.livejournal.com]

You hit a plateau sigma? I thought I remember you telling you didn't. I could be wrong....
Do you remember any of the experience? If so, what?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I've hit plateau sigma at least twice now. It's very surreal, but you recognize the surreality of things. The best way to put it is, it's a very believable hallucination. But there's a difference between a hallucination and a delusion.

Both experiences were extraordinarily profound, spiritually. And each have had effects which lasted for three days.