Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
Valium abuse....

"Valium, the sleeping pill that gained notoriety 40 years ago as 'mother's little helper', is damaging a fresh generation of women who use it to relax and go to sleep after taking cocaine or amphetamines.
Doctors warned this weekend that they are seeing a huge increase among teenagers and women in their twenties who are unaware that the little blue pills are potentially fatal when taken with alcohol, as well as being highly addictive. Patients who try to come off the tablets suffer withdrawal effects for weeks, including hallucinations and anxiety attacks, which can be worse than the symptoms that accompany withdrawal from cocaine or ecstasy.

Valium, widely prescribed in the Sixties to women with anxiety or depression, is the brand name for diazepam, one of a class of tranquillisers and sleeping pills known as benzodiazepines. The pills have gained new popularity as they can be bought cheaply over the internet.

According to Dr Mike McPhillips, who runs the addiction centre at the Priory Hospital in Roehampton, west London, several patients bought them while travelling around south-east Asia on a gap year. 'We are seeing a lot of young women coming in with a Valium addiction, up to one in 10 patients,' he said. 'There's a culture of younger and younger women taking cocaine and if you take half a gram it is hard to sleep, so the dealer who generously sold you that drug will sell you the Valium.'"

A nasty substance and often taken as a cocktail with other drugs and or alcohol.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/ma...cohol.jorevill
Xanax = Benzodiazepines

For me on a long haul flight these are the answer, i cant sleep upright and i cant sleep on a plane without them................what am i meant to do for 12 hours twiddle my thumbs!

Consume one pill and the next you know you have arrived at your destination

Purchased on the net because most docs here wont prescribe them for travel
I have not become addicted to them
I only ever take them on long haul flights and i never even been tempted to take them at other times

Doctors in the uk will prescribe you Zopiclone/Zolpidem these are pretty useless and at best will knock you out for around 1 hour = not so great on a 12 hour flight

Sorry but when i fly i need something to knock me out for many hours and i dont do alcohol