Toxicology LaboratoriesPhencyclidine (PCP, Angel Dust) is a cheap and popular drug often concentrated in selected socioeconomic groups. PCP may be characterized as a hallucinogenic drug due to the wide range of bizarre behaviors associated with individuals under the...
Benzodiazepines are generally classified as minor tranquilizers useful in the management of anxiety. Benzodiazepines include drugs such as diazepam (Valium®), chlordiazepoxide (Librium®), oxazepam (Serax®), lorazepam (Ativan®), alprazolam (Xanax®)...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouOestrogen, used in hormone replacement therapy to counteract symptoms of the menopause, could be as addictive as heroin, warns the former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. ...
Prescribed 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. ...
For the past 14 years, my adult daughter, who had been a useful and respected member of society in full-time employment, has been subjected to misdiagnoses, inappropriately prescribed drugs,
So claims a study conducted in Sweden of 200 opiate addicts, which made a cautious correlation between drug addiction among those whose mothers had used opiates, barbiturates or nitrous oxide duri ...
For years, drug manufacturing giant GlaxoSmithKline has promoted their best-selling antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat) as safe and easy to quit taking.
* 'We lowered the dose of medicine and two weeks later Julia called to say that the bottom had fallen out: `I'm a witch again.' She felt lousy - pessimistic, angry, demanding.
Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause dependence or that patients would be mainly responsible if they did.
