What Doctors Don't Tell YouPrescribed tranquillisers are far more toxic, more addictive and kill more people in the UK than all the illegal class A drugs put together.
One of the great tragedies of our times is the terrible legacy of addiction unwittingly created by medicine in its zeal to take away the pain of childbirth. ...
Legal drug addiction is the biggest cancer in our society today. ...
Tranquillisers are only prescibed to people suffering from anxiety, insomnia or mental illness. They are totally safe and innocuous, even when used long term. The only people who ever get addicted ...
We hear so much about medical blunders that it seems unbelievable that a scandal involving more than one million children in the UK alone has been going on under our very noses since 1960. ...
Ever since benzodiazepines lost their favoured position as a safe treatment for insomnia and anxiety, the pharmaceutical industry has been frantically trying to fill the lucrative gap with a drug ...
Nearly one out of every three elderly people will experience a fall every year. This can have profound effects on their bones as well as their self confidence. ...
The elderly are much more likely to suffer a serious fall which leads to a hospital stay if they are taking a sedative or tranquillizer such as benzodiazepine. ...
The Committee on Safety of Medicines, whose recommendation to limit benzodiazepine prescribing has had little effect, might do well to follow New York's lead, says the Lancet. ...
