Benzos

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Most of you know our feelings on benzodiazapines. We are not MDs, or pharmacologists, and thus, we do not pretend to understand these prescription medications from a chemical view point. However, clinically, we do have a lot of experience trying to treat people on these drugs and sometimes in the aftermath of them.

This is the one drug class that we tend to try and stay away from. The reason for this is because a person taking them will react in a manner not consistent with their non-benzo treated counterparts. Our thinking is that this class of medications either greatly increases microbial overgrowth or alters the way in which the nervous and immune systems normal act or both.

In any case, this link has been sent to me by someone who has had a lot of experience with this and felt that this is good informaiton. I have not had a moment to go through this completely, but, I am including it here for each of you to read: 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/09/07/when-withdrawal-hardest-part/nyWtjexiyOWSpU1TkloVnK/story.html

Over the years, We have seen these medications destroy lives (my opinion). We once saw it release someone from a late stage cancer crisis, a seizure, which, we felt was a human application of this medication. But, short of that, we have seen a lot of devastation.

Our thinking is that these medications are too easily prescribed and that years from now, it will be recognized as something that should not have been used in the way it is today. As we are now seeing-antibiotics have been overly prescribed-and now the results have been resistant bacteria and chronic illness, benzodiazapines stand right by in not even second place. This is epidemic.

Dr.M & B