Benzodiazepines[back] Toxic Psychiatry Pharma addiction
Benzodiazepines
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Toxic Psychiatry Pharma addiction
"1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced (in the U.S.) each year." - John Steinberg, Medical Director of the Chemical Dependency Program at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. [see]
"The benzodiazepines are probably the most addictive drugs ever created and the vast army of enthusiastic doctors who prescribed these drugs by the tonne have created the world's largest drug addiction problem. – Dr Vernon Coleman
Description
The benzodiazepines (which are considered minor tranquilizers)
are a class of drugs with sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant,
amnestic and muscle relaxant properties. Benzodiazepines are often used for
short-term relief of severe, disabling anxiety or insomnia. They began to be
widely prescribed for stress-related ailments in the 1960s and 1970s.
See: ADD
Drug names
Common benzodiazepines are: Valium - Diazepam, Ativan - Lorazepam, Normison - Temazepam, Mogadon - Nitrazepam, Dalmane - Flurazepam, Serenid - Oxazepam, Tranxene - Clorazepate, Librium - Chlordiazepoxide, Halcion - Triazolam, Dormonoct - Loprazolam, Noctamid - Lormetazepam, Frisium - Clobazam,
Xanax - Alprazolam, Lexotan - Bromazepam,
Clonazepam --Klonopin/Rivotril
Groups
COUNCIL FOR INFORMATION ON
TRANQUILISERS AND ANTIDEPRESSENTS (CITA)
VOT (Victims of
Tranquillisers)
Benzo.org.uk - Benzodiazepine addiction and withdrawal
BENZACT
www.benzodiazepine.org
Benzo critics
Ashton, DM, FRCP,
C. Heather
Gadsby, Joan E.
Peart, BSc, PhD, Dr Reg
Articles
Social
and general costs of iatrogenic
benzodiazepine addiction
Benzodiazepines - Time for Action and Accountability!
by Joan Gadsby
[WDDTY 2001] The big tranquilliser cover-up by Margaret Bell
[CITA] Carrying the fight to stop tranquilliser addiction--Pam Armstrong
[Letter BMJ Oct 2004] The cost of progress
Media stories [See:
benzo.org.uk - media archive]
[Media may 2001] Rogue doctors worse than backstreet
drug dealers (benzodiazepines)
[Media 2001 Benzodiazepines] Drug 'killing more than heroin' In Scotland in 1998 - the most recent figures available - 114 people died from heroin and morphine overdoses. But 151 died from taking benzodiazepines. In England and Wales between 1990 and 1996, 1,623 people overdosed on heroin, morphine and other opiates while 1,810 died from benzodiazepines.
[Media May 2001] Hidden world of tranquilliser addicts
[Media July 22, 2001] In the womb and hooked on tranquillisers
External
[2005]
Overprescribing of of Benzodiazepines: Problems and Resolutions
by C. Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP
[2005] History of Benzodiazepines: What the Textbooks
May Not Tell You by C. Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP
Benzo.org.uk - Benzodiazepine addiction and withdrawal