Category: benzodiazepines

Benzodiazepines in the media

The UK has another round of info about benzodiazepines in the news again. I've mentioned several times that for whatever reason the British Media seems to cover the hazards of these drugs much more faithfully. I'm doing a little round-up without too much commentary as I've covered Benzo Info extensively for many years. See my Benzo Info Page here. Protracted withdrawal syndromes are most common among benzo and SSRI users. All the psychotropic drugs seem to potentiate somewhat similar broad autonomic dysfunction in some people and on an individual basis I've seen worst case scenarios in some people using any and all the classes of psychiatric drug. But in terms of sheer statistics, there is no question in my mind having frequented withdrawal boards of all classes of psychiatric drugs now for many years that people are most often seriously struck with long-term withdrawal issues after having come off of benzodiazepines. They are nasty drugs and it's no exaggeration when people say they are worse than heroin to come off of. I've met a few people now who've done both. Heroin does not sicken people for months and years after having withdrawn like benzodiazepines can.

Driving while medicated: antidepressants, sleeping pills, anxiety drugs increase driving risk

Again Science Daily reports on the fact that psychotropic drugs impede people's capacity to drive safely. The classes of drugs being talked about here are SSRI and SNRI antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and the z-drugs like Ambien and Lunesta. I know from having taken them that antipsychotics too are egregiously guilty for making people NOT ALERT. I don't think... Continue Reading →

Yoga for your health and wellbeing, helps with your heart and anxiety and depression

Many of us who have withdrawn from benzodiazepines and SSRI antidepressants, both, have heart palpitations and other heart symptoms quite often as an iatrogenic injury. I've noticed that for my PTSD and psychiatric drug withdrawal induced tachycardia that yoga really does help minimize its horrors. It's not a cure all but it sure as heck helps one get through when things are rough as well as perhaps creating a foundation for long-term healing....I'm sharing this here today because I'm quite sure many with psychiatric drug withdrawal syndromes might be helped too. Below the excerpted article are a few postures that help my heart calm....

Benzodiazepine information page: risks and safer withdrawal info

As I've done with the recovery stories pages: here and here,  I'm giving blanket permission that this post may be cut and pasted in full and shared on blogs or  withdrawal boards, etc. This is a copy of the Benzo Info page that is always available under the Psych Drug Withdrawal tab at the top... Continue Reading →

Army warns against benzos and antipsychotics in PTSD: they can “intensify symptoms and lead to addiction”

I've written at length about the iatrogenic PTSD a lot of the people I network with exhibit once withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. In my experience in the withdrawal boards online the drugs that we see causing these issues most often are antidepressants and benzodiazepines, but people withdrawing from antipsychotics are simply much less represented in... Continue Reading →

Doctors sued for creating benzodiazepine (Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Xanax, etc) addicts (UK)

The UK continues to report on the dangers of benzodiazepine drug use in a way that the US media has simply never done. All the best mainstream media coverage on this class of drug comes from the UK. There is a much deeper and uglier denial about the problem in the United States...

Sleeping pills…commonly prescribed medications that can cause unexpected problems

The most troubling consequence of chronic sleeping pill is an apparent reduction in lifespan in chronic sleeping pills users relative to those reporting equivalent insomnia who did not take sleeping pills.

Many 1000s are sickened by psych drugs, but millions are saved? Is that a valid argument?

His bottom-line argument against my cautions about the dangers of benzo use and withdrawal was that those who get sick are an insignificant minority and therefore everything I said was fear-mongering. Period. The fact that many 1000s of people get sick in withdrawal compared to the millions who are "saved" means that those of us who are ill are simply to be written off as people with bad luck. Too bad, you're sick, the miracle that is benzodiazepine helps most people.

Disturbing stats: 37,485 deaths to prescribed drugs

Deaths from street drugs during 2009 were vastly less than those caused by prescription drugs. Medical doctors are leaving regular drug dealers in the dust.

Shrinks get you hooked on benzos and then cut the cord

Berberis aquifolium

Okay, not prescribing ANY benzo to any new users is a VERY GOOD IDEA. Taking existing users off it, on the other hand is a scary proposition because the medical establishment is in COMPLETE AND TOTAL DENIAL about the seriousness and severity of WITHDRAWAL SYNDROMES.

Become aware of your anxiety (panic) and heal yourself

Why is it assumed that people need remain unaware of their physiological experience? This is exactly what meditation can attend to. It's called "mindfulness" for a reason. It's entirely possible to become aware of our bodies, minds and psyches.

This sort of knee-jerk conclusion that determines we are helpless in the face of all our physiology strips people of their inheritance. We can be AWARE. We can wake-up. We can heal ourselves.

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