Benzos Rehab

Demonstrating the need for effective drug rehabs, the Charleston Daily Mail ran a news story November 20, 2009,  where Kanawha County Sheriff’s deputies out of West Virginia say they arrested a Campbells Creek man for possession with intent to sell a prescription drug, Clonazepam to a juvenile moments before.

Clonazepam is in a group of drugs called benzodiazepines. It affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause seizures. The drug typically is used to control certain types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy and panic disorders.

The Deputies interviewed the juvenile who confirmed the purchase of five tablets of Clonazepam for $10 at which point the suspect was arrested and taken into custody.

Benzodiazipines is a dangerous family of depressants with an ever increasing amount of people becoming addicted to these prescription drugs.  Repeated use of large doses or; even in some cases, daily use of therapeutic doses of benzodiazepines is associated with amnesia, hostility, irritability, and vivid or disturbing dreams, as well as tolerance and physical dependence.  But with more and more teens buying benzos on the street from contemptible drug dealers, it becomes more and more necessary to intervene and a drug rehab program may become necessary.

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In a recent article from Medicare Finance entitled, Health Matters:  What is Drug Withdrawal?”  further evidence of the dangers of benzodiazepine addiction are published. The healthcare agent network states:

“You may be hooked emotionally and psychologically. You may have a physical dependence, too. But if you’re addicted to a drug, whether the drug is legal or illegal, you have a craving for it. You want to use it again. When you stop taking the drug, you may have unpleasant physical reactions.
Drug addiction involves compulsively seeking to use a substance, regardless of the potentially negative social, psychological and physical consequences. Certain drugs, such as narcotics and cocaine, are more physically addicting than some other drugs.
The range of drugs to which you can become addicted is wide. They include:
Cannabis compounds. Contained in marijuana and hashish.
Central nervous system depressants. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines include tranquilizers such as diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), oxazepam (Serax), lorazepam (Ativan), clonazepam (Klonopin) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium).”

The article further states, “Drug use or abuse crosses the line to drug addiction when you feel you have to have the drug, and you increase the amount of the drug you take.”

At this point an effective drug rehab becomes necessary.

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In yet another study, this one published recently on New Scientist Health website, more reasons Benzodiazipines should not be used to treat patients has been announced.  While citing that giving sleeping pills to soldiers and earthquake victims is common practice,  it has been found that doing so may be causing more harm than good according to a study of traumatised rats, which seemed to show that the drugs suppressed the rodent’s natural mechanisms for coping with trauma.

While to the average person, it would be obvious that a person needs their full faculties in order to confront and deal with traumatizing situations.  By drugging the individual, their ability is thus hampered to recover.

Once on Benzodiazipines unfortunately, too many individuals find themselves in the grip of this powerful sedative and then become addicted. A drug rehab program may be necessary in order to break the hold of this substance.

It is never recommended that a person go cold turkey when addicted to Benzodiazepines; always do so under the guidance of a doctor, quite possible while attending a successful drug rehab program.

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