“It was even suggested that Valium should be added, like fluoride, to the drinking water. Together people would be blessed both with tranquility and strong teeth.” – Prof. Heather Ashton, December 2011
“A woman is safer in a park at midnight than on a psychiatrist’s couch.” – David Miscavige, October 2006
“Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs.” – Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, June 1995
“Nearly eight years ago, I first gained some very limited access to the Internet. I correctly diagnosed myself in about an hour.” – Benzo Buddies founder Colin Moran, January 2006
“7 Barbican Road is occupied by Colin Moran who has a secure tenancy. We are hoping that the time will come when he will want to move on.” – Calvary Chapel York, December 2008
“Drug users who are trying to kick their habit are perfect prey for cults like Scientology.” – Arun Arora, Director of Communications for the Diocese of Birmingham, March 2003
“I must confess, I have thought about becoming either a phone sex operator or a cam sex operator, probs phone first. I wish I knew some girls who would show me the ropes. I can’t seem to get any info online.” – Benzo Buddies member Journey, September 2012
“Did huffing gas do this to me? When I was about 12 or so I huffed gas.” – Benzo Buddies member jr991, March 2011
“I have been told countless times at Benzo Buddies not to listen to my doctor. ” – Benzo Buddies member jessiccarabbit, October 2012
“There are thousands of members on Benzo Buddies and there are bound to be some real loons, sociopaths, psychopaths and downright cruel freaks.” – Benzo Buddies member ld1, May 2013
“Go to hell you quack fucking bitch!” – End Psychiatry leader Daniel Carter to a registered nurse, April 2015
“Benzo Buddies members are usually anti-psychiatry because they have suffered at the hands of the profession.” – Angela, Benzo Buddies member
“Who are all you freaks? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?” – Benzo Buddies member Whoopsie, February 2013
20,000? 1500? No no no. Not even close.
Try close to 200 regular members of which about 70 are long-term taperers (2+yrs), and about 30 don’t even use benzos any more but still claim to not be “healed”.
The rest are lurkers and sporadic posters, and that number is dropping from 2yrs ago.
Note, *and this is the only forum of its type on the internet* which, if you think about it, shows that it’s not THAT well populated and basically become a giant clique that a bunch of crazies is keeping going!
A) If there was a choice (competition), I’m sure half of those members would go elsewhere and benzobuddies would be a marginal forum! It’s not as popular as it appears, and it’s degenerated into a hate-forum that the admins have lost control of (unless that’s what they want, of course).
B) If they didn’t make it so hard to close an account, many more would leave.
C) Half the posts are pure, unadultrated, unscientific, hateful nonsense.
In other words, it’s a microcosm, it’s just ‘upsold’ / marketed as being the most popular of all benzo forums, but being the only one, should put it back into perspective.
Oh, and of course, nearly all of those 200 are from North America.. with a tiny handful from the UK where the forum is based/hosted (maybe 10) and another handful dotted around the world.
Most members come and go within a few weeks.
That should indicate a few things to anyone paying attention.
Re: “Canada’s opioid crisis: five areas the feds must lead”
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2016, 04:38:43 am »
We’ve had 3500 deaths from opioid overdoses just last year in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. The governor is spending lots of money to get the crisis under control. Those rotten damn Big Pharma murderers. They’re killing off our citizens. I’m still pissed about Prince’s untimely death.
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^^ Classic benzobuddies hate. 3500 people ‘overdose’ on opioids and this is allegedly because “big pharma are killing off citizens”?
Couldn’t possibly be that people misuse opioids because they feel awesome, could it. Nope it’s a conspiracy to to kill us all off.
Never mind that opioids are a completely different class of drug to benzos, or that those damn pharma companies saved a billion lives this century alone, which is weird considering they’re trying to kill us all (someone’s been watching too many new world order videos on YouTube), no let’s blame them for our drug addiction and stupidity for taking 20 years of benzos for a period of mild anxiety at work, but couldn’t stop getting repeat scripts for. Cough.
It’s not really laughing when I say “Lol” it’s a sick desperation that this is commonplace and highly-infectious thinking on that hate-forum, but they just don’t want to see it (though I know some are reading this blog and rethinking things these days)!
They (meaning mostly admin) have some nerve calling this a hate-blog for pointing it out!
Mind you, many lies are passed down from the top to unsuspecting people at benzobuddies.