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New FDA Study Shows Benzodiazepines Can Cause Long Term Injury
by Shane Kenny | Nov 27, 2020 | 17 comments

While the US and the world is convulsed by COVID-19, a dramatic admission has been made by the US Food and Drugs Administration about dangerous benzodiazepine drugs, acknowledging patients have suffered severe withdrawal side effects that have “lasted from weeks to years.”

Their study reports that patients can be made “physically dependent” after taking benzodiazepines for as little as “several days.”

They have also said stopping benzodiazepines abruptly or reducing the dosage too quickly can cause severe withdrawal reactions “including seizures which can be life threatening.” Their study reports that patients can be made “physically dependent” after taking benzodiazepines for as little as “several days.”

Patients Campaign for Change
The FDA has not produced a report on the hundreds of thousands of complaints that have been made to them about benzodiazepines, but just 104 “focused case series,” in the FDA’s own Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) to which citizens can make a complaint about prescribed drugs. Benzodiazepine Information Coalition (BIC) almost certainly had an input to this FDA awakened awareness of the dangers of BZs through its campaign since 2017 to get those injured by the drugs to report their cases to the FDA’s MedWatch, with guidance on their site to demonstrate how to make a complaint, and assurance of its confidentiality.


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This campaign in the US was also recommended to patient support groups around the world using W-BAD, World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day website, and direct approaches to other groups, like BenzoBuddies. This apparent success in the US informing realism within the FDA about how huge numbers of patients taking benzodiazepines as prescribed have had their lives destroyed, will make an international follow-up with patients informing their governments and their health agencies directly about this medical disaster more urgent and important.

The FDA’s hard-hitting statement says: “Physical dependence can occur when benzodiazepines are taken steadily for several days to weeks, even as prescribed. Stopping them abruptly or reducing the dosage too quickly can result in withdrawal reactions, including seizures, which can be life-threatening.”

The statement continues: “The current prescribing information for benzodiazepines does not provide adequate warnings about these serious risks and harms associated with these medicines so they may be prescribed and used inappropriately.”

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https://www.benzoinfo.com/2020/11/27/fda-study/