Are benzodiazepines addictive?
There is no doubt they are addictive and in this country apart from Professor David Nutt, chair of the Home Office drugs advisory body the ACMD and his disciples, all expert opinion appears to accept that they can addict quickly and that presumably is why the 1988 four week Guidelines are still in place. “There’s no scientific evidence to indicate that one particular tranquilliser is worse than another … To act just against one would he wrong because there is a problem with the whole group.” – Brass Tacks, BBC2, October 20, 1987. Professor Sir Michael Rawlins – Chair of CSM Subcommittee on Safety, Efficacy and Adverse Reactions. Vice Chair and then Chair of the CSM. Chair Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Chair National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) “…And then the alarm bells started to ring, quietly at first and then louder and louder. […] Doctors were not well equipped to deal with this. This was something new in their experience. They don’t like dea
