tranquillisers – 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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‘I lost a decade of my life to prescription drugs’

Author: Editorial 25th November 2019 0 Comments

“The main sufferers of prescription-medication withdrawal are white women over the age of 45. We know how to put people on these drugs, we just don’t know how to get them off.” Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Bangor University….
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