Posted by River1924 on October 6, 2005, at 22:18:34
In reply to Re: Do the British know something we don't?, posted by denise1966 on October 4, 2005, at 13:01:45
Maybe in the US, getting fat or (more probably fatter) is considered worse than any temporary addiction/withdrawal.
In the US, I don't know how doctors pick which benzo: I've tried several and had very different reactions or no reactions to drugs which are supposedly very similiar.
I think it is bizarre, docs would give zyprexa but not a benzo (at least temporarily.) But, in the US, the same situation exists for the elderly with dementia, parkinson's or sleep problems. Regs on the books from the late 70's and early 80's make benzo hard to prescribe.
Someone said something along the lines that science only really changes when a generation dies. I think when every pdoc who prescribed or taught during the 60's, 70's, or 80's dies, benzos will get a realistic evaluation.
I'd also guess that a state run medical system (as in Britain or the heavily regulated US nursing homes) makes drugs labelled bad by the establishment very hard to rehabilitate and actually prescribe.
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