Xanax – A New Vision for Mental Health

‘Thirty years on, I still have symptoms from taking benzodiazepines’

Author: Editorial 20th March 2023 0 Comments

This report by David Cox has been published in The Telegraph. It begins: “In the 1970s and 1980s, vast numbers of people in the UK began taking benzodiazepines, a group of drugs more commonly known as tranquillisers, for stress, anxiety and…
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anxiety, Ativan, benzodiazepines, David Cox, drug dependency, psychiatry, The Telegraph, tranquillisers, Valium, Xanax

Take Your Pills: Xanax

Author: Editorial 2nd December 2022 0 Comments

“Take Your Pills: Xanax” – directed by Emmy winner Blair Foster – is the title of a documentary on Netflix that looks at this widely prescribed anti-anxiety medication. Here is a trailer: You can only watch the entire documentary if you…
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anxiety, Blair Foster, drug withdrawal symptoms, Netflix, psychiatry, videos, Xanax

Panic Diaries: A Genealogy Of Panic Disorder

Author: Editorial 12th September 2017 0 Comments

“Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its ‘cures’ in the twentieth-century United States: from the…
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anti-anxiety drugs, books, Jackie Orr, panic, panic disorder, psychiatry, Psychitaric drugs, Xanax