Doctors turning patients into drug addicts, admit too many patients addicted to tranquilizers

‘For the first time, a major British doctors’ association has admitted that too many patients are being prescribed dangerous and addictive benzodiazepine tranquilizers, also known as “benzos.”
These benzos include Xanax, Restoril and diazepam – a generic drug formerly marketed as Valium and nicknamed “mother’s little helper” for its widespread prescription to housewives in the 1960s and 1970s. The drugs are clinically indicated only for extreme nervousness and anxiety, as they depress the brain activity responsible for consciousness. As a side effect of that primary result, the drugs are strong tranquilizers and sedatives. They are also potent muscle relaxants that can be used to control severe pain.’
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