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  1. I AM 81 YEARS OLE, WAS PRESCRIBED LORAZEPAM FOR 13 YEARS. UCSF HAD LEFT MESSAGES TO MY DOCTOR TO STOP PRESCRIBING THEM. I WAS ON 6MG EVERY NIGHT FOR RLS. I WAS READING HORROR STORIES ABOUT LORAZEPAM AND I IMMEDIATELY STOPPED COLD TURKEY, HAD A PSYCHOTIC BREAK, AND FOR 3 DAYS WAS IN HELL. MY PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR PUT ME ON CLONAZEPAM .5MG TO TAPER OFF THE 6MG OF LORAZEPAM, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON 3MG TO TAPER. NEEDLESS TO SAY MY COMPLAINTS ABOUT FEELING LIKE I AM STILL HAVING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS AFTER MANY MONTHS, I WAS TOLD, NO, YOU ARE PAST THAT. IT IS NOW 2-1/2 YEARS, AFTER MANY MEDICATIONS TO HELP ME SLEEP, I HAVE REBOUND INSOMNIA, BECAUSE LORAZEPAM WAS PRESCRIBED FOR SLEEP. I SLEEP 3 HOURS PER NIGHT, AM ALWAYS TIRED AND GRUMPY. I HAD CALLED THE PRESCRIBING DR TO TELL HIM HE NEVER SHOULD HAVE PRESCRIBED THAT MEDICINE FOR 13 YEARS, IT’S FOR SHORT TERM ONLY, HIS RESPONSE WAS “HOW DO YOU KNOW I PRESCRIBED IT, I SAID I HAVE THE BOTTLE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT, AND ANNUAL SUMMARIES FROM WALGREENS SHOWING ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE YEARS PAST AND YOUR NAME IS RIGHT THERE. NOT ONLY DID YOUR PRESCRIBE THE LORAZEPAM, YOU ALSO PRESCRIBED OXYCODONE, MANY TIMES FOR MY NECK PROBLEMS, WHICH EVENTUALLY I HAD TO HAVE 3 DISCS FUSED TO STOP THE PAIN. THIS IS A REAL NO, NO, YOU SHOULD NOT PRESCRIBE BENZOS WITH OPIOIDS. I HAVE TO BLEAME MYSELF FOR NOT RESEARCHING, I TRUSTED HIM 100%, MY BIG MISTAKE. I WOULD SUE HIM IF I THOUGHT I COULD STOP HIM FROM DOING THIS AGAIN TO SOMEONE ELSE, AND PAY FOR MY 2-1/2 YEARS OF SUFFERING, AND STILL CONTINUING TO SUFFER.

    1. With all due respect, opioids have been prescribed with benzos for over 60 years. Some people really do need these medications for life, just so they can have a quality life. It’s up to you to do the research and tell your doctor that you don’t want to be on them. He was just doing his job honey.

  2. Help. I am suffering. I am tapering slowly but do not know how much longer i can take this and stories like this scare me. A “doctor” put me on xanax back in 1997 for panic attacks. He told me I would need xanax for the rest of my life. Then I got depressed terribly so for the next 25 years or so, different doctors tried over 25 different drugs on me for the depression that was caused by benzodiazepines – only taken as directed! In 2013 another “doctor” switched me over to 4mg klonopin. I am down to 2.6mg. And 10 mg lexapro. Suffering. I need hope. All I hear are horror stories.

  3. Why, just WHY, do they not expose the REAL monster in the room??? BIG PHARMA!!!!!! THEY, are the ones that KNOW the terrible life threatening chaos that this little pill causes. For years!!!! A lawsuit doesn’t help all of the people that this is and has affected. No amount of money in the world will make up for the deaths and misery it’s caused. I’m tired of the “cover-up code”!!!

  4. This is not about Chris but the same could be said about the mass country music shooting in Vegas I think it was. They kept saying we don’t know they why? But i heard on the news long ago he had a script to Valium n even if he was out he may have been with drawing and that’s y he planned this killing n suicide. I don’t think all aspects of his course of this drug were taking into consideration as police do not understand the side effects on n tapering n crashing off benzos. He may have horded them to take at one time or stop abruptly. I wish someone would look into that to give the family a why and raise the awareness of the dangers of these drugs.

    1. I agree. How many ppl have to die because of greed and money. The PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES have got to man up and admit it’s their fault.