Posted by Quintal on June 8, 2007, at 22:01:23
In reply to Re: Which benzos are LEAST }} Phillipa, everyone » Quintal, posted by Phillipa on June 8, 2007, at 20:14:41
Benzos behave the same where ever you go in the world but some professionals are better educated in their limitations than others. There are also important differences in health care systems between countries; for example in some systems private healthcare dominates and patients are a source of potential profit, and doctors benefit when treatment is prolonged. In other countries free public healthcare is the norm and every prescription is a drain on limited resources. Doctors working in the latter are forced by necessity to be more realistic and pragmatic in their prescribing habits, using only those therapies proven to bring the patient to full recovery in the shortest period of time with the least expense.
Recently a psychiatrist raised your benzo dose (quite spectacularly it must be said). According to the ideas popular in the US this would have been a very wise move, and an effective treatment for what was claimed to be anxiety induced depression. According to the ideas popular in the UK it would have been a predictable disaster. Going by that experience then, which model was more accurate?
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