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Xanex, Valium, and other Benzo’s
"The biggest drug-addiction problem in the world doesn’t involve heroin, cocaine or marijuana. In fact, it doesn’t involve an illegal drug at all.
The world’s biggest drug-addiction problem is posed by a group of drugs, the benzodiazepines, which are widely prescribed by doctors and taken by countless millions of perfectly ordinary people around the world… Drug-addiction experts claim that getting people off the benzodiazepines is more difficult than getting addicts off heroin… For several years now pressure-groups have been fighting to help addicted individuals break free from their pharmacological chains. But the fight has been a forlorn one. As fast as one individual breaks free from one of the benzodiazepines another patient somewhere else becomes addicted.
I believe that the main reason for this is that doctors are addicted to prescribing benzodiazepines just as much as patients are hooked on taking them. I don’t think that the problem can ever be solved by gentle persuasion or by trying to wean patients off these drugs. I think that the only genuine long-term solution is to be aware of these drugs and to avoid them like the plague. The uses of the benzodiazepines are modest and relatively insignificant. We can do without them. I don’t think that the benzodiazepine problem will be solved until patients around the world unite and make it clear that they are not prepared to accept prescriptions for these dangerous products." Source- Dr Vernon Coleman
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Life after addiction
Five years ago I entered a long term rehabilitation program; my life was a mess and I never though it possible that years later I would be happy and healthy or even still alive. When my family drove me 14 hours away from home and dropped me off I thought they were just throwing away their money. They dropped me off in the middle of winter in a place I did not know and had no way of leaving. Yes they forced me to complete the program or live in the streets; they were not giving me a way out of it. It was their style of an intervention.
Today I am a productive and active part of society; the long term program that I went through taught me how to handle life. It taught me how to live in the present and not get lost in my past. It taught me that no matter what I had done in my past it did not have to control what I would do in the future. I owe my life to that program and to the caring people that stuck by me through those horrible years of addiction.
The past is history, the future is a mystery. Living in the moment is a gift; that’s why they call it the “present”.
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