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burnt-resistor on July 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dem...

~~[EDIT: sed s/.*//] -> Benzos are anticholinergic though. I don't see gabapentin listed as such.]~~

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe on July 11, 2025 [–]

Wait what? Benzos are not anticholinergic in any sense of the word that I know of.

burnt-resistor on July 11, 2025 | [–]

My bad, I'm smoking the proverbial crack. Benzodiazepine addiction => fucks up the GABA system. Anticholinergic, anti-dopaminergic, and GABAnergic breaks different delicate bits.

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