Posted by alan on August 29, 2002, at 11:08:45
In reply to Re: Benzo monotherapy for Anxiety and Depression, posted by hiba on August 29, 2002, at 2:59:05
At the very least, offer them to the patient on equal footing with the commercially driven AD's.
All some patients know is the mantra "bzds are addictive". Just the whiff of anything that implies the old-fashioned concept of addiction is enough to have any med-phobic anxiety sufferer going into orbit over the thought, never considering the medication again.
Meanwhile patients can be guniea pigs for the pharmecutical industry and their unknowing accomplices - the psychiatrist that's bought their
blather about bzd's being "addictive" - and go through life just accepting the fact that the one ssri that they've finally landed on is the best the profession can do for them.A real scam....which I was victim to for several years until I found a doc that had a broader perspective of the profession...
alan
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