Posted by med_empowered on October 4, 2005, at 17:45:15
In reply to Re: Do the British know something we don't?, posted by Meri-Tuuli on October 4, 2005, at 16:09:08
well...speaking as a US citizen who has experienced the joys (lol) of being waaaay overmedicated in the name of "treatment" I gotta say...sometimes I think US docs could use a little healthy skepticism. Every new drug that comes out is somehow automatically better than the "old, dirty" drugs, and there's always this sense that one needs to "cover all the bases," etc. etc. The benzo situation in the US is kind of complicated...you have docs who RX them a good bit, docs who RX them but under-prescribe, so there's really no point in RXing them in the first place, and then you have docs (especially GPs) who freak out when you say the word "xanax." Sooo...I don't know what to say about that situation; I think it really depends on the doc, your condition, your age, and where you live. When docs RX benzos here (in my experience) they tend to be kind of bad about tapers...its like they'll RX something for a year, 2 years, 3 years, and then **BAM!!**--they decide its time for you to be benzo-free, and a quickie taper is done...it seems like a lot of shrinks have power issues, I think.
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