have a question

Do you all think this is right or are other factors involved?

thanks ,

nev

this is pretty much a chicken and egg situation.  drinking and drug use are fairly common as an attempt to self-medicate when the pain of depression or the stress of mania get to be too much to handle.  or is it that the drinking and drug use cause the depression and mania?  the events are always linked in the same time-frame.  as i understand it, medical opinion sides with smiler on this:  it is the symptoms of the disease which causes the alcohol and drug abuse.

if you can find the cause of bp, you are pretty much guaranteed a nobel prize in medicine.  gene?  environment?  substance abuse?  just plain crazy?  maybe all of the above or siomething entirely different.  then there are triggers.  smiler mentioned stress.  yes, that one is pretty common from what i'vwe read.  but each perrson is different and what triggers me might have no effect on smiler or your friend.  and vice versa.  we are all individuals.   ain't that grand?  lol.

don't know if i helped you with your query, but at least i added some additional information.

warren

thank you for those kind words. 

there is one thing that you said in your post which really upsets me.  it's amazing how a rumor can become gospel.  i am a child of the 60s - you know where ethe girls burned their bras and us guys were glad for it?  at any rate, we were also the first drug generation.  if johnson could lie about viet nam, what's to make us believe him about drugs?  so many of us smo9ked grass and a few of my generation (not me) dropped acid.  i still remember dr timothy leary, the guru of acid, and what acid did to his career and his life.  really sad.  he was once a brilliant scientist.

at any rae, about acid.  the powers that were felt threatened and began an all-out campaign to stomp out drugs in the college community.  they were reluctant to have mass jailings because that would upset good voting and vcontributing mommy and daddy.  so they came up with "scientific evidence" to discredit drugs.  one of these was that acid alters dna and can cause birth defects and permanent genetic problems.  it wasn't until (i think it was) the 90s that freedom of information queries discovered what the rest of us knew.  the people in washington are all liers and crooks.  when the revolution comes, they will be the second against the wall - after attorneys.

no, it is highly unlikely for a single use of this parti8cular drug to cause the symptoms that you described.  i believe only meth can cause immediate addiction - but this is hear-say - i've never been interested enough to investgate it.

hope this helps.  hope your friend is getting better.  give him/her our best.

warren