So basically it is a long extended crash afterwards (mentally)?
Isn’t this what Cormier was supposed to be abusing while he competed? He was known for partying year around and rolling off his ass. Wonder how he managed to train.
I think it was popular all across the pro circuit and all the ones who partied at the NY sound factory, like Dorian. I don't know but I doubt Cormier used it specifically every day, there
are a lot of other drugs to mix it up. Titus of course was caugt with a few thousand pills when he lived with Ameen, both their fingerprints were on a package of pills. I read that as an amateur at a show Titus cut a line of coke in front of people he didn't know, "this is what I do." Dorian was said to have been hooked on Nubain like most of the rest but that is rumors, I don't know if he commented on it himself. Before bodybuilders started to use it on the advice of Duchaine it was seen as a non-addictive narcotic, I remember seeing a study following 4000 people and only one or two developed dependency. But that's in clinical practise, hospital use.
The kind sold on the net as a nootropic?
Yes. There are rehab centers specializing in phenibut. Much faster dependency than benzos.