Posted by Meri-Tuuli on April 20, 2006, at 9:46:07
In reply to Re: Benzo-phobia + docs -- why, why, why?, posted by tizza on April 19, 2006, at 17:15:56
Check this anti benzo site out!!
The worrying thing is that it is run by a Professor at a reputable UK university!!!! Its crazy. I love the line in this quote "we can do without them".
Well, blow me, they can have crippling anxiety and panic attacks and see which they prefer.
The other quotes are rather bad too. Look, it seems that people will have a bad withdrawal if they stop it cold turkey -- of course they will!! You try stopping effexor cold turkey and see how you do.
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The biggest drug-addiction problem in the world doesn't involve heroin, cocaine or marijuana. In fact, it doesn't involve an illegal drug at all. The world's biggest drug-addiction problem is posed by a group of drugs, the benzodiazepines, which are widely prescribed by doctors and taken by countless millions of perfectly ordinary people around the world... Drug-addiction experts claim that getting people off the benzodiazepines is more difficult than getting addicts off heroin... For several years now pressure-groups have been fighting to help addicted individuals break free from their pharmacological chains. But the fight has been a forlorn one. As fast as one individual breaks free from one of the benzodiazepines another patient somewhere else becomes addicted. I believe that the main reason for this is that doctors are addicted to prescribing benzodiazepines just as much as patients are hooked on taking them. I don't think that the problem can ever be solved by gentle persuasion or by trying to wean patients off these drugs. I think that the only genuine long-term solution is to be aware of these drugs and to avoid them like the plague. The uses of the benzodiazepines are modest and relatively insignificant. We can do without them. I don't think that the benzodiazepine problem will be solved until patients around the world unite and make it clear that they are not prepared to accept prescriptions for these dangerous products." - Dr Vernon Coleman, Life Without Tranquillisers, 1985. More Quotations »»
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