Posted by Alan on August 11, 2002, at 12:03:16
In reply to Protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal?, posted by Mr.Scott on August 10, 2002, at 19:02:52
http://bearpaw8.tripod.com/pd.html
and
http://panicdisorder.about.com/library/weekly/aa031997.htm
There are zero credible studies to indicate this "protracted withdrawl syndrome".
They are usually what your first respondee mentioned...return of symptoms but in modified form due to the natural progression or morphing of the disorder or are something else altogether yet undiagnosed...or even the bzd was misprescribed in the first place causing an escallation in dosage and even an unsupervised withdrawl.
That isn't to discount entirely or minimise the experience of a few that have bad reactions to the drug. This phenomenon is common amongst all drugs, psychotropic or not. Perhaps if the drug co's hadn't covered up research suggesting that withdrawl symptoms DO exist for ssri's (just look at the subject matter on this bboard anytime of the year) there wouldn't be lawsuits against the makers of let's say Paxil for having not disclosed this information to the FDA. These facts were available through internal memos having been made public.
Best,
Alan
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