Tranquilliser addicts need help

STEVIE Nicks has been around the block a fair few times but looking back on her debauched lifestyle now she’s a pensioner, the Fleetwood Mac singer has revealed her anguish over never having children. Stevie Nicks, 62, believes a crippling addiction to prescription medication prevented her from fulfilling her dream of becoming a mother. “The…

Mennesker, som er blevet afhængige af nerve- og sovepiller, er stort set henvist til selv at betale for en kostbar afvænning i privat regi. Der mangler tilbud om behandling og udtrapning af medicinen i det offentlige regi, og de praktiserende læger har som regel hverken ressourcer eller tilstrækkelig viden til at påtage sig opgaven. »Det…

This physician shares his story Say the words, “drug addiction,” and most of us think of heroin, alcohol, cocaine, or opiates. However, lurking in the shadows is a less talked about epidemic: addiction to benzodiazepines, commonly known as “benzos.” I should know because after taking a nighttime dose of lorazepam (Ativan) for about ten years;…

Jeg fikk voldsomt angst, ble mørkeredd og fikk kraftige kramper Tore Bakken (67) stolte på at medisinene legen skrev ut ville hjelpe ham. – Det er det dummeste jeg noen gang har gjort, sier han. Det var i Spania, tilbake i 2004, at Tore Bakken (67) forsto hva som var galt med ham. Han hadde…

Rock climber Matt Samet, 41, former editor-in-chief of Climbing Magazine, didn’t plan on becoming a writer too. During a break from studying geology at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the early ‘90s, a conversation with his father helped point him toward journalism.  “It’s funny. It’s the kind of thing that only a father…

There’s no understating the extent of America’s opioid crisis. In 2017, the same year it became a public health emergency, an estimated 1.7 million people in the US had substance abuse disorders related to prescription opioids. And this year, the National Safety Council found that the odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are…