Posted by med_empowered on October 28, 2005, at 5:54:32
In reply to Re: Getting off Seroquel » blueberry, posted by Phillipa on October 27, 2005, at 20:02:29
Personally, I think if someone has been on a benzo for 30 years, and its helped, it really doesn't make sense to make them withdraw from the medication to put them on something more expensive that might not help as well (or at all). This whole benzo-phobic thing that some doctors have is ridiculous, especially when you look the drugs they're using to substitute for benzos. Antidepressants? don't work. Antipsychotics? They're expensive, mind-numbing, and cause massive weight gain, diabetes, and tardive dyskinesia. And how do these same docs get all Holier-than-thou about giving adults benzos to help with crippling anxiety when they're pumping school-age kids full of Ritalin and amphetmaines? Its totally ilogical and not at all helpful.
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