The Benzo Beast

It's devious and deceptive, confusing and cunning. It messes with your intellect, your sense of reality, and your emotions. It puts unwanted, frightening, catastrophic thoughts in your head. It's as if it were alive like some kind of demon or monster that holds on and doesn't want to let go. It's a war. But it can be won. It's insidious and all pervasive, but it can't win in the end if we are determined. We can rid ourselves of it and we do recover. Trust me. it's the truth. I did it!

Tony

Various Materials from Dr. C.H. (Heather) Ashton

Anything for a Quiet Life? - May 1989 - Valium, Librium and Mogadon once seemed to provide the perfect answer to stress. We now know how this group of drugs alters the chemistry of the brain; no wonder they create more problems than they solve

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION BULLETIN, JUNE 1986 - Adverse Effects of Prolonged Benzodiazepine Use

The Pulse, July 22, 1989 - Helping patients come off benzodiazepines

Long-Term Effects of Benzodiazepine Usage: Research Proposals, 1995-96 - Assessment of cognitive performance, brain electrophysiological activity and magnetic resonance imaging in chronic benzodiazepine users after withdrawal.

Risks of dependence on benzodiazepine drugs - A major problem of long term treatment

BENZODIAZEPINES: The Still Unfinished Story - Speech delivered by Professor C Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP at BEAT THE BENZOS CAMPAIGN LAUNCH CONFERENCE, Croydon, London, England, Nov, 2000

Reasons for a Diazepam (Valium) Taper - April '01

Benzodiazepine Dependency Discussed - 1997

Protracted Withdrawal From Benzodiazepines - The Post-Withdrawal Syndrome, March 1995

"Chemical Imbalance" - Is mental illness caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain... ?

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