Question About The Klonopin Years

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

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I think you are missing her point, which she said is that she was done with the coke and did not need the Klonopin. But, the doctor told her to take it anyway. If he had listened to her, he would not have perscribed it.

As for personal responsibility -- addiction is a disease. So, yes, La Nicks shoulders some of the resp. -- but my understanding of addiction is that it is not as simple as making a conscious choice to take the pill.

I totally agree with the second thing you're saying - I think that Stevie was still an addict, and will always be. In that environment (the Record Business and Rock Music back in the 80s) I think that she was at very real risk of getting back to it. (By the way, I don't know if it's true, but there's rumors that she was doing coke again during the Dance Tour....) So, yes, I honestly do feel that the Psychiatrist was trying to "knock her down" in order to try to help her. I think this may be one of those situations where there's "more to the story than meets the eye."

Anyway I didn't mean to imply that addiction isn't a disease or anything like that, I totally get that. I just didn't phrase it very well, maybe. At any rate I really do wish she would change it to something like, "Well, it was really bad for ME; and I feel like I'd like to warn people off of it because I had a bad experience with it. But . . . I dunno - - - talk to your DOCTOR, I ain't an M.D.!"