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I've found most of the people complaining of problems with benzodiazepines have other mental health issues, are on other medications, and / or are polydrug abusers.
The so-called online help forums for these people function along the lines of a cult. The people that inhabit these sites follow a perversion of Prof. Heather Ashton's work and actually claim to know more than the doctors do. They retail the idea that doctors are in league with Big Pharma to harm the patient. To say it is pretty nuts is an understatement.
These sites appear to foster and encourage mental illness. At them one will find anti-medicine and anti-doctor bias in spades. Quite often the people there have not followed their doctor's advice but eagerly follow the advice of total strangers they met on the internet. I noted quite a few are fresh out of a mental hospital.
Most people do not have any trouble coming off this class of medication.
The so-called online help forums for these people function along the lines of a cult. The people that inhabit these sites follow a perversion of Prof. Heather Ashton's work and actually claim to know more than the doctors do. They retail the idea that doctors are in league with Big Pharma to harm the patient. To say it is pretty nuts is an understatement.
These sites appear to foster and encourage mental illness. At them one will find anti-medicine and anti-doctor bias in spades. Quite often the people there have not followed their doctor's advice but eagerly follow the advice of total strangers they met on the internet. I noted quite a few are fresh out of a mental hospital.
Most people do not have any trouble coming off this class of medication.
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