from drugs.com: ativan and klonopin and all those benzos are typically 1-4 dollars per pill
Thanks. An earlier post pointed out an experience with amnesia while taking a legitimately prescribed benzo medication, I believe it was not remembering details about a car accident.
When I looked up benzos at eMedicineHealth.com, it stated one of the medical uses for this class of medication is specifically to produce amnesia effects for uncomfortable medical procedures and surgeries.
This effect could very well be one of the reasons for the screwy inconsistencies in details some people have shown in this case.
Thinking about benzos also brings me back to the subject of the beer. If some people were in the 'habit' so to speak, of taking benzos, and then overnight their ability to continue was very abruptly stopped because of scrutiny, polygraphs, LE tracking, media spotlight, etc., I would imagine said people might be needing a fix in a mighty large way, especially with all the pressures and stresses. It would not surprise me if beer became a stand-in substitute for benzos, under the circumstances. Its legal and its fairly cheap.
If we do not know WHO brought/bought the beer, it could have been a 'gift' from an 'understanding and sympathetic friend'.
I have a distant family member who has just experienced a death in the family with extraordinary and unusual circumstances; it has been on the news and Dr. Phil staff contacted him yesterday to be on his show. They have not even had the funeral yet, and this sent him into such a tailspin that he typed on Facebook late at night that he couldn't sleep and probably needed a beer. It would not surprise me if he had any number of good buddies showing up at his door within 10-15 minutes bearing beer and a sympathetic ear, maybe the whole fire department he works at, heck, maybe half the town, for that matter (small town). I would not cast aspersions on this. Of course, he has NO history of substance abuse, a mitigating factor.
Another possibility on the New Years beer: maybe someone intentionally kept the beer flowing, hoping it would relax inhibitions and keep mouths moving. :innocent:
Hailey, YOU ARE LOVED. Please, please, come back and be reading this someday in the future. And thanks to SuperChicken for introducing this hope; it helps me sleep better at night.