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Brilliant animated clip
Brilliant animated clip highlighting the ignorance and lack of knowledge shown among many doctors when it comes to problems with prescription psychotropic drugs, especially benzodiazepines.
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Gateway to Drug Abuse
Although benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed for anxiety etc. overprescribing from ill-informed doctors can result in a gateway to drug abuse creating yet another problem for both individuals and society as portrayed in this animated clip “Wobbly Stan”.
No doubt the name “Wobbly Stan” came from the fact that benzodiazepines cause dizziness and staggering. There is also a downloadable comic version.
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Stevie Nicks: Tell me Lies
Doctor: Benzodiazepines will help to calm you down and keep you from going back to coke…
"Singer Stevie Nicks has publicized the dangers of Klonopin (benzodiazepine) by describing her own detox from the prescription drug as "hellish" and worse than withdrawing from cocaine or heroin.
"Klonopin turned me into a zombie,” she told US Weekly in 2001.
Seems people are all saying the same things over and over…
- I was like a zombie
- It felt like I was in hell
- It was much harder to come off benzodiazepines than anything else I'd ever had before
- It took a chunk of my life away
- It has destroyed my life
- The doctor never told me they were addictive / The doctor told me they weren’t addictive
- When I complained my condition was worsening the doctor prescribed me more...