ARE DOCTORS PRESCRIBING DRUGS WHICH ARE
HARDER TO WITHDRAW FROM THAN HEROIN ?
ARE THEIR PATIENTS INFORMED OF THE CONSEQUENCES ?

Tranquilizers in the News
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BENZODIAZEPINES
[ MINOR TRANQUILLIZERS ]
A RESOURCE PAGE FOR
ATTORNEYS, JOURNALISTS AND VICTIMS OF TRANQUILIZERS
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Mis-prescription of benzodiazepines ( tranquillizers ) continues to affect millions of people worldwide. Between 5% to 15% of the world's population are chronic users of this dangerous class of drugs listed as drugs of “dependence” by the World Health Organisation and the British Medical Journal as early as the 60s.

Hopefully this web site will help educate the public of the ongoing controversy and aid in the making of informed decisions regarding the advisability of using these drugs for more than a week or two for the common conditions of anxiety and insomnia.


NEWS STORIES AND ARTICLES
QUOTATIONS
MEDICAL DOCUMENTS AND NEWS
LINKS TO RELATED WEB PAGES
RELATED TOPICS

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NEWS STORIES AND ARTICLES


Website Lifeline for Victims Worldwide

Valium addict wins pay-out of £40,000

Advocate Wins Compensation for Ativan Patient
Waikato Times, New Zealand 10/2/2002

Addiction by Prescription
Victoria Times Colonist 2/1/02

Governor Jeb Bush's Daughter
Arrested in Xanax *Prescription Fraud*
MSN & NBC News 1/29/02

Cops Gave Noelle An RX Break
2/1/02

Natives Awash in Addictive Sedatives
Vancouver Province 12/31/01

Anti-depressant 'Addicts' Threaten Legal Case
UK Guardian 12/10/01

Former User of Klonopin Sues Doctors
Boston Globe 11/4/01

Prozac Critic, Dr David Healy, Sues University of Toronto
for Cancelling Job Offer
The Toronto Star 9/25/01

University Accused of Violating Academic Freedom
to Safeguard Funding from Drug Companies
BMJ 2001;323:591 ( 15 September )Owen Dyer, London

Lilly Faces Prozac Lawsuit
StarNews.com - September 18, 2001

Drug Firms Accused of Distorting Research!!!
Monday September 10, 2001 The Guardian

"1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced (in the U.S.) each year."
- John Steinberg, Medical Director of
the Chemical Dependency Program at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

BBC NEWS logo
Panorama Uncovers Major Addiction Problems 5/13/01


BBC NEWS Panorama Tranquilliser Trap documentary logo
The Tranquilliser Trap 5/13/01

The Tranquilliser Trap Transcript

BBC NEWS Panorama Tranquilliser Trap documentary logo
BBC Tranquilliser Links Page

BBC Panorama Tranquilliser Special gif
The Whole BBC Panorama Tranquilliser Trap File

BBC NEWS logo
Hidden World of Tranquilliser Addicts 5/13/01


Rogue Doctors Worse Than Backstreet Drug Dealers
The Irish Examiner 5/21/01

Doctors Urged to End Drug Menace
Evening Chronicle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 6/7/01

More Addictive Than Heroin, Yet Prescribed to One in Four Adults.
Benzodiazepines Can Ruin Lives...
Sunday Express Magazine Report by Cherrill Hicks 1999

Addictive Pills "Handed Out Like Lollies"
The Dominion, Wellington, New Zealand 5/29/01

In The Womb and Hooked on Tranquillisers
The Sunday Express 7/22/2001

More Seniors Addicted to Prescription Drugs
USA Today 7/23/01

To Hell and Back
St Catherines Standard 5/14/01


Tranquillisers Are linked to Brain Damage
The Sunday Express 5/13/01


Log on to Drug Help
The Scunthorpe Telegraph 5/28/01


Horrifying Legacy of the 'Celebrity Sedative' Marketed Without Tests
The Sunday Express 11/25/2000

Doctors Warn Against Overuse of Tranquillisers
India Times 4/11/01

The Nightmare Pills:
How Millions Are Caught in The Tranquilliser Trap By Dr Vernon Coleman- May 7, 1986


Popular drug a Serious Risk, Users Charge
The Ottawa Citizen 11/3/2000

CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corp. logo
A Former Canadian Soldier Fights Against The Military
National CBC Television News 1/14/01


Call to Restrict *Mother's Little Helpers*
Dec 13, 2000, Wellington, New Zealand

United Kingdom Parliament logo
Text of The UK Parliamentary Debate on Benzodiazepines
12/7/1999

European Court logo
European Court Upholds UK Ban on Halcion
BMJ February 13,1999;318:418

Legal Blow for Drug Makers
Ruling Makes it Easier to Sue Over Warnings
San Francisco Chronicle 8/8/96

Memo Suggests Upjohn Concealed Halcion Side Effects
BMJ March 12,1994; 308:677-678

New Report Criticizes Upjohn Over Halcion
BMJ May 21,1994; 308:1321-2

Halcion.....is it Safe ?
Newsweek Magazine 8/19/91

Halcion is Too Dangerous to Use
Public Citizen 11/17/97

Alarm as Drug Company Chief Joins Watchdog
The Guardian 12/28/2000

The Brain Disabling Effects of Benzodiazepines
Peter Breggin M.D.

Two UK Doctors Speak Out Against Benzos - 9/4/2000

Pete Townsend "Addicted to Ativan"
Rolling Stone Magazine 1982

Doctors Dished Them Out Like Sweets...
The Independent 8/19/96

Mans Life 'Blighted by Pills' 10/30/2000

Tranquilliser Hell
BBC ONLINE logo
3/13/2000

Valium Father to Sue
Mail on Sunday 6/22/97

Girl 8 Sues For Foetal Injury
Sunday Telegraph 2/16/97

Troubles Behind The Calm
Growing Awareness of The Scale
of Tranquilliser Addiction
The Guardian 8/17/1988

Physical Dependence on Zopiclone: Case Reports
BMJ January 10, 1998;316:117

Doctor Warned over Valium and Clonazepam Prescription to Addict
July 8, 2000 Wellington, New Zealand

Professor Malcolm Lader, Psychiatrist, Royal Maudsley Hospital:
Interview on BBC Radio 4 programme "Face the Facts", 1991.
Benzo Withdrawal Much More Difficult Than Heroin Withdrawal


A Collection of British Press Stories 1985-2000


More UK Press Stories 2000-2001


Benefits and Risks of Benzodiazepines
in Anxiety and Insomnia


Tranquilizer Use In Anxiety Disorders
by 'Rik' for The National Center For Tranquilizer Information


More Than 150,000 Finns
Take Tranquillisers Regularly
Helsingen Sanomat 12/11/2000

French Lead the World in Use of Medications
San Francisco Chronicle, 5/14/98

Dr Douglas Coleman Backs Benzo Rules- August 1999

Renowned Psychiatrist Dr.Loren Mosher Resigns From
The American Psychiatric Asociation in Disgust

Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery ?

STATE OF CONNECTICUT JUDICIARY logo
Court Finds Xanax and Prozac Cause Criminal Conduct

Upstanding Citizens Turned Into Tranquilizer Addicts
300 Per Year Arrested in Nevada

Sedative Cocktails Fed to the Elderly
The Independent - London 5/7/97

Benzos Ineffective for Anxiety and Insomnia
UK Mental Health Publication from 1990

Xanax - A Voyage Into The Twilight Zone
By Max Ricketts

Halcion - The Nightmare Drug
By Max Ricketts

FDA XANAX review in review:
XANAX Does Not Cure Anxiety
By Max Ricketts


Halcion: An Independent Assessment of Safety & Efficacy Data ( 1997 )
Read the Whole Book Here for Free

A problem with Lorazepam ?
Dr. Heather Ashton 1998

Judges Addiction Nightmare
Sunday Times, Johannesburg 11/28/1999

Problems of 'Benzo Babies' to be Probed,
Oldham Chronicle, 11/22/2000

Prescribed Drugs do More Harm to Babies Than Heroin
Sunday Telegraph 9/21/97

Oldham Group to Lead Fight Against Tranquillisers
4/8/2000

Tranquilliser Terror, The Bruce Barnett Story
New Idea, Auckland, N.Z. 8/14/95

Campaigner Given Cold Shoulder
Oldham Chronicle 2/15/2001

Coping With Tranquilliser Addiction
Best Magazine 2/20/01

Sad Story of The Happy Pills
The Guardian 4/5/94


Mothers Asked for Tranquilliser facts
Sunday Telegraph 1/5/97

Peer's Son Blames the Pills & is Cleared
Sunday telegraph 5/4/97

Deep Depression Over Barnsley U.K.
Daily Telegraph
6/17/99

Abuse of Sleeping Pills brings Call for Tight Curbs
The Observer 8/15/93

Pills Mom Popped Hurt a Generation
Sunday Express 1997

Addiction by Prescription: Interview of Joan Gadsby
Shared Vision Magazine - 11/2000

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Video Excerpt of "Our Pill Epidemic"

Keeping an Open Mind, Alec Jenner:
The Man Who Helped to Create Valium
The Guardian, 11/22/2000

International Drug Therapy Newsletter
Benzodiazpine Prescribing
December 1989

The Father of Mother's Little Helpers
U.S. News Online 12/27/99

Mother's Little Helpers 35th Birthday
ABC News 12/17/2000

Mother's Little Killers
Channel 4 News, 1/4/2001

pharmacist ( chemist ) pouring pills into pill container

Drug Killing More Than Heroin
ITN 2000 Review

Health Drug Ban 'Could Cut Road Deaths'
BBC News 10/23/98

UK Rohypnol ( flunitrazepam ):
The Date Rape Drug

Addiction Poised to Strike at Every Turn
News-Press.com 2/19/01

Judge's Decision in Gadsby Drug Case Criticized
Vancouver's North Shore News 8/4/1997

Canadian Parliamentary Debate on Benzodiazepines - Evidence 10/22/1997

Link to Assorted Other Media Stories
Most of Them are Mentioned Above


QUOTATIONS

200 QUOTATIONS FROM MEDICAL EXPERTS

JOAN E. GADSBY
Benzodiazepines - Time For Action And Accountability


MEDICAL DOCUMENTS AND NEWS

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Very Revealing
ROCHE U.K. DOCUMENT
Sent to Prescribing Physicians in The U.K. in 1990

HEALTH CANADA logo
In 1983 Health Canada Releases Booklet Entitled
The Effects of Tranquillization
Benzodiazepine Use in Canada
Click Here to Read the Full Booklet

HEALTH CANADA logo
Health Canada Finally Puts Benzos on
The Controlled Substances List on June 22, 2000
After 17 Years of Knowing the Truth

New Zealand Puts Benzos on The Controlled Substances List

INCB logo
International Narcotics Control Board
Go to "Controlled Substances/Forms"
Download "Green List" PDF format

200 MEDICAL QUOTATIONS ON BENZODIAZEPINES

101 MEDICAL REFERENCES ON BENZODIAZEPINES

Protracted Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Syndrome
Mimicking Psychotic Depression
Jack G. Modell M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychiatry
March-April 1997

Brain-Disabling Effects Of Benzodiazepines
Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

Reducing the Use of Benzodiazepines in General Practice,
J W Tiller, July 2 , 1994

Benzodiazepine Audit Protocol
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care
University of Leicester

Treatment of Benzodiazepine Dependence
Medical Journal of Australia 5/26/86

Discontinuation of Alprazolam Treatment in Panic Patients

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UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE SHIELD
Benzodiazepines - How They Work and How to Withdraw
by Prof C. Heather Ashton D.M., F.R.C.P.


BENZO.ORG.UK
RATED 5 STARS BY CLINNIX
OVER 185,000 HITS PER MONTH

Master Links Page to All Known Web Sites on Benzodiazepines

The Largest Moderated Online Support Group for Benzodiazepine Dependent People


The Dr. David Healy Affair


Psychopharmacology & The Government of The Self
by Dr. David Healy, 2001
*********
This is The lecture That Started The
Dr. David Healy & The University of Toronto Scandal.
Read this !!!
It is Bound to Become The Most Historic Lecture of Our Decade !!!

Prozac Scandal 'besmirches' Canadian University
The Guardian 9/10/01

Bitter Pill
David Healy Speaks Out on Killer Prozac
Eli Lilly Tries to Ruin His Career
The Guardian 2/15/01

Swallowing the Company Line
The Guardian 6/14/01

Murder,Suicide.
A Bitter Aftertaste for the
'Wonder' Depression Drug Seroxat
The Guardian 6/11/01

Psychiatrist: SSRI Drugs Made Volunteers Suicidal
Reuters 6/11/01


New Lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKlein
claims popular anti-depressant Paxil is addictive
Associated Press 8/21/01

California Lawsuit Against
Smith Klein Beecham RE: Paxil
and Pfizer RE: Zoloft

4 Dead
GlaxoSmithKline Loses Paxil Court Case
The Guardian 8/9/2001

Warning Signs on Doctors Roadshow
The Guardian 5/07/01

Anxiety and Depression Overdiagnosed
Dr. Vernon Coleman

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