Posted by Siraris on January 7, 2004, at 0:15:05
In reply to Re: Long Term Klonopin Usage, posted by Kon on January 6, 2004, at 23:45:56
*The study showed that anxiety, depression and psychotropic drug use were significantly and independently associated with cognitive functioning in elderly men.*
Elderly men... do you think that's even relevant to this situation? I am not elderly, I'm in my early 20's. When I am elderly, I expect to lose cognitive abilities because my brain is old. My Grandmother is 92 and is losing her cognitive abilities because she's ELDERLY. She takes no medication whatsoever and is not sick in any way.
Regarding both tests, what evidence do they have of the cognitive abilities of these patients before the testing.
In the second test, how do they know that the Benzo's were causing the cognitive ability loss and not the fact that they were anxious and depressed? It says nowhere that they were anxiety and depression free.
I mean granted here are two studies of people on Benzo's, but they don't seem to be very good if you ask me. If you show me a test where they found that 50 people had a 120 IQ before taking Benzos, and then started taking them and their IQ dropped to 110, then I'd say Benzos are the issue.
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