Pro-Benzo Lobby Group?
Savvy
[posted from uk.local.nw-england]
People have been addicted to benzos and have formed something
called the ITA the Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction or
something.
This is fair enough but their negative experience should not
prevent people who want them and need them.
The doctor could ask the person to sign some kind of consent
form
saying that they know all the risks and swear not to sue at a
later date.
The anti-benzo hysteria is damaging lives today in just as
negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.
Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
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Savvy
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Savvy
Arthur Anderson
Savvy (10637...@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
: [posted from uk.local.nw-england]
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: The anti-benzo hysteria is damaging lives today in just as
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: Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
I think the real mileage is in educating people about
the disorders where benzos are sometimes necessary.
Certain forms of anxiety and panic disorders involve
severe biochemical imbalances where such medications
are essential, while other forms of these disorders
may not require any medication. Adopting either
extreme would be generally misleading, but education
should help rebalance the benzo misconceptions.
Specifically, there is some good research published
on the role of cholecystokinin (CCK4) in panic attacks;
attacks which can be far more severe than most people
realize. Benzos are an important medication in such
cases.
Best Wishes,
Arthur
p-peters
Savvy schreef:
> [posted from uk.local.nw-england]
>
> People have been addicted to benzos and have formed something
> called the ITA the Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction or
> something.
>
> This is fair enough but their negative experience should not
> prevent people who want them and need them.
>
> The doctor could ask the person to sign some kind of consent
> form
> saying that they know all the risks and swear not to sue at a
> later date.
>
> The anti-benzo hysteria is damaging lives today in just as
> negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.
>
> Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
>
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> Savvy
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> Savvy
Probably not but if anybody tries count me in. We could mobilize
learned doctors und scientists from different countries.
Philip Peters
Samson
In article <uURsYKt...@ntawwabp.compuserve.com>, Savvy
<10637...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
> The anti-benzo hysteria is damaging lives today in just as
> negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.
>
> Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
Sure. It's called Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. They've been behind benzos for
almost 40 years. They do a good job.
Steve Work
Samson (s...@sch.tiac) wrote:
: Sure. It's called Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. They've been behind benzos for
: almost 40 years. They do a good job.
The only trouble is that there's no money to made in benzos anymore. All
or almost all of them are off patent. The doctor might still write
"Valium" but the patient is going to get generic diazepam at 1/5 the cost.
Those full-page ads in Medical Economics urging doctors to write "do not
substitute" on Valium prescriptions aren't going to cut it anymore. Most
all insurance is making people pay out of their own pocket the difference
between the generic and brand name. Who's going to pay an extra $60 at
the pharmacy just to get pretty yellow tablets with a cut-out V in them.
Who cares what the tablets look like unless they plan to sell the stuff on
the street?
Gary Cooper
In article <uURsYKt...@ntawwabp.compuserve.com>
10637...@CompuServe.COM "Savvy" writes:
>
> [posted from uk.local.nw-england]
>
>
> People have been addicted to benzos and have formed something
> called the ITA the Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction or
> something.
>
> This is fair enough but their negative experience should not
> prevent people who want them and need them.
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>
> The anti-benzo hysteria is damaging lives today in just as
> negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.
>
> Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
I have a great deal of sympathy with your point of
view and feel that there does, indeed, need to be
a counterbalance to the current hysteria regarding
this group of medications.
Sadly, the tactics used against anyone who believes
benzodiazepines have a valuable role to play are those
of the witchfinder: if you have ever used them and
believe them helpful, you are an addict whose views
are untrustworthy.
Whether a lobby group could sway the set minds of
the medical profession is open to question, I'd
have thought but some opposition to victim culture
protest groups does seem like a good idea, IMO.
--
Gary Cooper
Donald Cameron
benzodiazapine addiction, is extreamly rare, and not normally a consequence
of treatment for PAD, GAD, UAD, or BAD.
Savvy <10637...@CompuServe.COM> wrote in message ...
>[posted from uk.local.nw-england]
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>
>People have been addicted to benzos and have formed something
>called the ITA the Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction or
>something.
>
>This is fair enough but their negative experience should not
>prevent people who want them and need them.
>
>form
>saying that they know all the risks and swear not to sue at a
>later date.
>
>negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.
>
>Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
>
>Savvy
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>Savvy
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VWH
[posted from uk.local.nw-england]
People have been addicted to benzos and have formed something
called the ITA the Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction or
something.
This is fair enough but their negative experience should not
revent people who want them and need them.
The doctor could ask the person to sign some kind of consent form
aying that they know all the risks and swear not to sue at a
later date.
The anti-benzo hysteria is damaging lives today in just as
negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?
--
Savvy
negative a way as pro-benzo hysteria did in the past.
Is there any mileage in starting a pro-benzo lobby group?Yes,
definitely, in my opinion! There is so much baloney leftover from
the 60's &
70's and I am so sick
of hearing about addicted people & paranoid Drs & Pharmacists -
people today are literally not getting the treatments they need (in my
mother's case, it basically cost her her life) because of terrors that
live in the past. Get the Hell over it, People!
Vic
