People have the impression that wine is food and Valium drugs (such as Valium, Alprazolam, Eszopiclone, Clonazepam) are drugs, and that food is safer than drugs, so they have the impression that wine is safer than Valium drugs, but in fact, the opposite is true: Valium drugs are safer than wine. A. The effects of tranquilizers and alcohol are similar Tranquilizers and alcohol inhibit the central nervous system, and during use, they cause sedation, anxiolysis, depression, dependence (i.e., addiction), forgetfulness, impaired driving and sexual inhibition. During withdrawal, both cause delusions, hallucinations, paranoid ideas, anxiety, fidgeting, agitation, depression and grand mal seizures. Second, drinking alcohol is slightly heavier than the effects of Valium-type drugs 1, when taken in terms of central inhibition: drinking alcohol causes suicide, abuse (overdose, intermittent, harmful to the body use) and emotional disinhibition (irritability, impulsive aggression) is very clear. For example, it is controversial whether Valium causes suicide; Valium causes abuse only in the context of other substance abuse; Valium can cause emotional disinhibition only in high doses. 2, withdrawal symptoms: alcohol withdrawal can cause delirium tremens, respiratory alkalosis and fever, while Valium withdrawal rarely causes delirium, no clear respiratory alkalosis and fever, only a subjective feeling of heat appears. Third, drinking can cause somatic damage not Valium 1, digestive system: drinking stimulates the gastrointestinal tract, causing gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, long-term drinking can also cause esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and intestinal cancer, causing liver cirrhosis. 2, circulatory system: long-term heavy drinking promotes arteriosclerosis, increasing mild hypertension, coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy and mortality. 3, muscle system: drinking alcohol can cause myopathy, showing muscle atrophy and tenderness. 4, endocrine system: long-term heavy drinking can cause hypersexuality and impotence in men, and menopause and early menopause in women. 5.Nervous system: Long-term heavy alcohol consumption can cause (1) peripheral neuropathy, showing sensory loss, numbness and burning sensation. (2) Wernicke’s encephalopathy: characterized by nystagmus, ataxia and blurred consciousness. (3) Korsakoff’s syndrome: characterized by poor memory, fugue syndrome and temporal disorientation. It can be seen that drinking alcohol is more harmful to the body than Valium, and conversely, taking Valium is much safer than drinking alcohol, so when alcohol withdrawal occurs, Valium can be used as a substitute treatment. If you are not worried about the harm of drinking alcohol, you do not have to worry about the harm of Valium drugs. 1. Definition: Addiction to Valium is the pursuit of pleasure, or to avoid withdrawal symptoms and rebound symptoms during withdrawal, you have to continue taking Valium. Withdrawal symptoms are patients in the first 3-7 days of drug reduction or discontinuation of new symptoms that did not appear before treatment, for example, before bedtime clonazepam, feel itchy everywhere on the body, as if there are constantly mosquito bites, walking during the day like walking on the moon, light, this is the withdrawal symptoms, rebound symptoms refers to the withdrawal period, reproduce the original anxiety insomnia before treatment, but the degree is more than 40% worse than before treatment, for example For example, the patient was moderate anxiety, taking clonazepam to relieve, 1-2 days after stopping the drug, anxiety becomes severe, the original night can only sleep 3 hours, taking clonazepam can sleep 8 hours, 2 days after stopping the drug sleep through the night, resulting in the patient had to continue to use the drug, which is clonazepam addiction. 2, the misconception of addiction: many patients and even many doctors mistakenly believe that want to stop the drug, but can not stop, is addiction. For example, taking clonazepam for anxiety insomnia, clonazepam once stopped, anxiety insomnia reappeared, the patient had to continue to take the drug, which is addiction, in fact, this shows that clonazepam for anxiety insomnia effective, should continue to take, as long as the condition of anxiety insomnia needs, take 10 years 8 years is not addiction. For example, epileptic patients need to take phenytoin sodium and phenobarbital for a long time, once the drug is stopped to commit epilepsy, you say this is phenytoin sodium and phenobarbital addiction? Hypertensive patients need to take anti-hypertensive drugs for a long time, without taking the drugs blood pressure will rise again, you say this is anti-hypertensive drug addiction? Diabetic patients need to take glucose-lowering drugs for a long time, you call this an addiction to glucose-lowering drugs? Therefore, the drug for the therapeutic effect and can not stop, continue to take is legitimate, not addiction. 3, addiction rate: Because many doctors have a vague concept of Valium addiction, resulting in a large statistical deviation of Valium addiction, many chronic anxiety and insomnia accept Valium addiction effective, but can not stop, are classified as addiction, so Valium addiction rate is as high as 40%-100%, in fact, we operate in accordance with the strict definition of addiction in the clinic, the addiction rate of Valium drugs in In fact, we operate under the strict definition of addiction in clinical practice, the addiction rate of Valium drugs is not more than 5% in impression. On the contrary, alcohol dependence is alcohol addiction, and once alcohol is suppressed to drink, it is either for pleasure or for withdrawal reaction, not for cure, so alcohol addiction will not be as easy to misunderstand as Valium addiction. In the West, alcohol addiction is 10% for men and 3%-5% for women. The actual addiction rate is only higher than that of Valium. If addiction is caused by rebound symptoms, rebound anxiety does not exceed 1-2 weeks, rebound insomnia does not exceed 1-2 days, if withdrawal symptoms are caused by withdrawal symptoms, withdrawal symptoms appear in 3-7 days of drug withdrawal or drug reduction, disappear within 2 weeks, at most not more than 4 weeks, so survive 2-4 weeks, addiction is also withdrawal, which can also be used in the interim trazodone, mirtazapine, sodium valproate and other drugs symptomatic treatment, to help patients through the withdrawal period. To help patients through the withdrawal period. If the patient has both rebound and withdrawal symptoms and a relapse of the original anxiety and insomnia, he should continue to take Valium drugs and give priority to treating anxiety and insomnia rather than giving priority to withdrawal of addiction symptoms, because the nature of addiction is not as serious as anxiety and insomnia, it is benign and there is no “addiction” like morphine after withdrawal of addiction, so there is no need to be too afraid of Valium drugs. There is no need to be too afraid of addiction to Valium.