Prescribed Addiction - Face the Facts
Four in five GPs prescribe drugs to patients they believe are addicted
How the FDA Is Sleeping Through the Xanax Epidemic
Misery of the tranquilliser addicts forced to go cold turkey by GPs By Jo Waters
Drugs linked to brain damage 30 years ago - MPs and campaigners predict class action after failures to mount full-scale research into warnings left millions of patients at risk By Nina Lakhani
Benzodiazepines - Benzodiazepine drugs have been described as a 40-year plus horror story for tens of thousands of people in the UK, a scandal that has never been properly addressed. The scandal arose in the 1980's, after thousands of patients were found to have become horribly addicted to drugs like Librium and Valium. The victims complained of DIEs such as blackouts, epileptic seizures, memory loss, brain damage, insomnia and personality change. What is far worse is that many people who suffered these Benzodiazepine effects still do so - so clearly these were DIEs and not merely 'side-effects' or 'adverse reactions'!
John Perrott's Meeting with the Royal College of General Practitioners - Proposed agenda for discussion on involuntary tranquilliser addiction with Dr Harris, Head SMU, RCGP, Simon Ashmore, Head of Communications RCGP and John Perrott, Lancaster, Monday 28th March 2011.
Top 25 Psychiatric Prescriptions for 2009 By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Note the
percentage increases of benzodiazepine scripts since 2005 - all are up. Also
note that there are three benzodiazepines on the list - Xanax, Ativan and Valium
- if you total them you are looking at around 85 million scripts, considerably
higher than the second medication on the list.
I lost ten years of my life as a middle class, NHS sponsored drug addict... By Philip Robinson
Doctors ignored drugs warnings - A 30-year-old document revealing doctors’ fears about the number of people addicted to benzodiazepine drugs has been uncovered by the Beat the Benzos group.
Valium users worse drivers than drunks
Who Killed Heath Ledger? The Real Truth Behind the Drugs
Valium prescriptions soar during recession - By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
Agony of the very unlikely addicts: Thousands of over-60s are hooked on tranquillisers that have turned them into virtual zombies By Jo Waters
CRACKDOWN ON THE KILLER TRANQUILLISERS - By Lucy Johnston "A RANGE of powerful tranquillisers could be put under strict controls after being linked to a series of high-profile deaths. "