POV: How the Benzo Crisis Was Solved
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In my journey through psychiatry training, I've noticed a troubling pattern: a reluctance to prescribe controlled medications and a stigma around benzodiazepines. This attitude has left patients feeling marginalized and struggling to access their essential medications. As a telepsychiatrist, I've seen firsthand the challenges patients face, from abrupt medication cuts to protracted withdrawal. Despite these perceived efforts to prevent a “benzodiazepine crisis” akin to another opioid crisis, policies often hinder access to proper care and almost seem to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's time for a shift in approach to prioritize patient well-being and improve education and accountability in prescribing practices. #mentalhealth #psychiatry #benzodiazepines #telepsychiatry
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This is a brilliant staging of our immoral medicine. It is exactly like that. Thanks a lot for all you do, Dr. Witt-Doerring!
We are Onto Them ALL. THEY ALL KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO US.THEY HAVE HAD 60 YEARS TO "GET THE MEMO."
I recently moved to a new city, I’ve been finding it nearly impossible to find someone who will prescribe benzos. I’ve been on them for 22 years, I can’t just stop of course. I don’t want to be on them, especially at 60, but nothing else has helped my since I was 9. But I don’t have access to CPTSD therapy with Medicare/Medicaid. I have my records, I’ve never had any issues with lost prescriptions or anything like that, and I’m down to half of what I was taking 7 yrs ago. Every MH place I’ve called starts the convo with “the docs at this clinic don’t prescribe benzos” - before I say a word about what meds I’m on. Being on SSDI seems to mean I’m a drug-seeker here. I’m terrified.
I was prescribed for 40 years. A PHARMACIST took me off too quickly. I am suffering terribly. No one will think about reinstatement. I am in protracted withdrawal and um - nobody cares.
@@marleneholik-ls9wr I’m so very sorry. That’s inhumane, to say the least. ((hugs))
Thank you so much for posting this 😂! This is exactly the way it is! That's what happened to me!😢 I was labeled as an addict! I was blamed for what happened to me and what the meds did to me! Still in Protracted withdrawal until this day
Yes! This is exactly what has been done to me. It’s been awful. Thanks for bringing it to light.
Cold turkey at jail. I lost 10lbs in 7 days. It was horrible. They cold turkey at detox too.
They gave me a few benzis don't know what they don't tell u shit. I just know not nearly enough after being in them most of adult life
While this is supposed to be funny, it truly triggered me as that’s exactly what my doctor did and I needed up in the hospital thinking I was dying.
We need the word out! We need help to taper properly! We need therapist who can understand the anxiety that just comes from the process. It’s just all so frightening to me.
I’m meeting me a new psychiatrist tomorrow and I sure hope he knows what he’s doing. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
May I ask if your new doctor is helpful and working with you? I wish you all the best! 🙏
@@HopefulEmpath thank you for asking. No. He did not work out. My doctor is using the Ashton manual plus some help from a group on fb from the uk. Thankfully I am down from 8mg to 4mg and it has been slow but worth it to have little to no side effects from the taper thus far. I know it may get a bit challenging towards the end but at least everyone is working with my own body and not against it. 🙏🏼🌻
@@Joylynnfrancis I’m glad you have someone on your side that, at the very least, is taking your taper seriously and slowly. It sounds like it’s going as well as a taper can. Down to 4mg is fantastic! Best of luck to you! 🙏
@@HopefulEmpath thank you. You’re very kind to say that. 🙏🏼🌻
Absolutely brilliantly executed.
unfortunately, this is 100%, dead on balls accurate! It’s terrifying! Thank you so much for standing up for those of us, in need,
THANK YOU! For being a voice, speaking the word!
Thank you, Dr JOSEF! You and team , you are literally saving my life! #BenzodiazepineAwareness #Benzohell
Thank you for all your videos, doctor!!!
Honestly lots of modern corporate meetings in general. Trying to figure out how to keep the machine churning at human expense
😢 I laughed but then I got sad because when I was in the psychward, there was a girl there who went as voluntary, and she took 3 pills of Xanax per day during work hours... her psychiatrist took it off without tapering it and replaced it for another benzo. The girl started "going insane" and begged her to put on her Xanax again, the psychiatrist refused to do so! Fortunatly, she had pills at home and her boyfriend brought her without anyone knowing. I believe even voluntary entris are obligated to be there for at least 1/2 weeks. I'm not sure. I hope she is okay and had done a proper taper afterwards. I believe it was the same psychiatrist who took off a pill so the heart could pump blood, from an 60y/o lady and she passed out one day and hit with her cheekbone on the floor, had to do an x-ray. Fortunatly she didn't break any bone and that snake put her pill back without changing anything on her med intake. So it means it wasn't required to take off the heart pill! F*cking psychos! 🤬🤬🤬
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Bravo!😊
THIS shit happened to me!!!!!! No joke! I'm not gonna share personal details here but yeah, I was labeled and shamed. Same way. It started when my provider retired. All went downhill from there. You hit the nail on the head doc. Thank you for posting the truth as always. Keep doing this please!
Disabling tolerance and dependency resulting in profound cognitive and physical decline.
Increased poly drugs resulting in increased neurotoxicity, encephalopathy.
3 failed rehabs resulting in kindling.
4+ dx’s of neurodegentrative disease’s mimicking medication induced dementia.
Neurologist dx neurotoxicity encephalopathy.
Neurologist prescribed caseworker, therapists.
Profound, compounded traumas/grief, crushing betrayals.
I noticed a shift when my psychiatrist referred me to a therapist that suddenly became available in her office for the _meds she was prescribing_ me. I attended one ‘therapy’ session. It was one of the most demoralizing moments to be asked if I could restrain myself from taking benzodiazepines if they were on my bedside table, and I refused to answer. I refuse to be treated like an addict for a _dependency_ so I simply ignored the entire line of questioning and _found a new psychiatrist._
Always remember there are options and it is _your_ life.
And brilliant!
Brilliant display of whats going on worldwide. Can we help in any way?🤔 Perhaps report our side symptoms (or addictions) more often to the FDA?
Can you please do more medi-skits? So many of us have both bazzar & horrific encounters with this subject.. We'd love to see more, including perhaps your own personal knowledge in every aspect of the subject.🗝🧐
Yes more reports to the FDA I have an video on how to do this ruclips.net/video/UOSxrPU5j2M/видео.htmlsi=EgzxpBpi_fhSHYrh
Family medicine dr - check
More meds - check
Gaslighting - check
SUD - check
Blame the patient - check
Absolutely no help - check
Drop the patient - check
Severe benzo injury - check check check
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Well done
😂😂😂 so true😢
This is so good! And pretty accurate, too! 😂
I was horrified when I learnt about the dangers of benzo and my pharmacist had been handing them over to me for decades without one single warning .
👍👍👍
can i be honest i only have drug problems when they stop prescribing it
Sad this was labeled satire because this should have gone viral as the absolute truth you know it to be ... if we are ever to turn these mistruths around so till then THE STIGMA that needs changing remains. A missed opportunity and teaching moment.
Another thing they are doing is, the insurance companies are refusing to pay for benzos and z drugs. You have to get a prior authorization and hope that the insurance company will approve it. Where I live, if insurance won’t pay, you’re not allowed to pay out of pocket either because it is a controlled substance.
How do I get an appointment with this dr. over Telehealth ? I need to speak w a dr. who understands Benzos. In CA. Thank you !!!!
You can visit our website taperclinic.com and watch our webinar about our program and then sign up for a call with me to learn more
@@taperclinic thank you 🙏🏻
Hmm. I thought this might be stupid but it's actually reality.
😂
Stop production
This should make us not just think about the way we treat compliant benzo patients, but also the way we treat addicts. If you started the Xanax with an irresponsible physician or a guy selling bars on the corner, you started because you were trying to escape the pain of anxiety. I’m not suggesting that treatment should be the same, but I am suggesting that the end result is the same and that dependence should always yield compassionate care, not rapid withdrawal.
True
Absolutely!
Rapid titration has killed people & ruined many lives! THAT is NEVER the answer unless 1 has barely been on it. I’m coming off after 20 - 30 Years now! It’s been a nightmare, still, at least so far, I’m alive to say so!!
That was great and as close to the truth as you can get.
"Blame, shame, addict, we don't treat addicts, rehab" actually gave me anxiety. I can see that happening. Not my Dr unless he was told this is how benzo patients have to be treated. Hmmm...orders could come from the upper eshilon.
It all scared the crap out of me as I'm tapering now.
Can you imagine how the world would change? And it would!!! But in a negative way.
I love the big pill he's holding like a baby🤣
Too True!!!
it killed us
I really like this guy.
Edit: there are others like him from the system, on youtube, but this one, he knows how to battle also.
Brilliant. Dr. Josef you look nice.
This is what happened with the pain pill situation.
I often think they wanted people to turn to the streets .
I feel the same way. It’s cruel to patients, and will be about as effective as D.A.R.E. was.
let's play: laugh, rage or cry!? My prediction is that once the benzo story more fully leaks out in a slow drip, the newer guild interest boys club will distance themselves from the old guard upholding benzos (and all psychotropics). Be nice if they were a profession Achilles heal, though.
So true that it hurts.
How about this…
Yes! Brilliant…since they needed a pain medication temporarily but we also prescribed them an unnecessary combination of benzos, antidepressants, and muscle relaxers at the same time,…because “pain causes depression and depression causes pain”…if they do start having protracted withdrawal symptoms we can say it’s “drug seeking behavior” caused by the opiates and NOT the unnecessary drugs we prescribed 🤨
I can’t help but wonder how many people suffered from symptoms for years believing they were “drug addicts” because of their horrible symptoms … wicked.
Actual drug addicts get treated with more compassion and kindness than patients needing benzos.
To anyone tapering: you can do it, just take it slow.
I was kinda forced to start tapering after my primary doctor died from covid and the new doc said he wouldn't see me unless i started tapering off the 15mg/day valium I was on for over 10 years. Thankfully the new doc knew the dangers and worked with me if i needed more time after a step-down.
It wasn't easy, I lost my job and any social life I had. It took almost 2 years to complete the taper but it's nice to be free. My brain is still healing 18ish months after my last dose.
My next goal is to get off my SSRI that I've been on for the same amount of time but the nausea, vertigo and brain zaps are so brutal I'm scared to start the taper.
Sorry for the ramble, but if I can do it, anyone can, as long as you take your time.
I’m so sorry for all you’ve been through! You mentioned brain zaps and it reminded me of my Cymbalta self-taper in 2012. I had only been on it a month but Dr wouldn’t help me taper off, she just pulled out another “sample” of something else (can’t recall what). Anyway, 12 years later and I still get brain zaps especially when I’m tired. Yesterday was a bad day for brain zaps. 😢😢 Good luck.
This is so effed up that this is true. I’m so sick of our horrible medical system killing people. I had a Dr. Prescribe me this crap 20 years ago…. then when the opiate and benzo crisis hit, the doctor called me into his office and called me a drug addict, and I was so confused because I had taken the medication as prescribe, and then he started messing with the doses and the amount in each bottle every month and told me just to deal with it… and see look how anxious I was.
I told him - listen if you want me off the medication- we need to taper me off.
He made rude and inappropriate comments.- told me dress like his wife….
I found another Doctor Who was willing to prescribe it. I eventually got down to a quarter of the dose and now I’m going through withdrawals from going up and down with the does too much - in tiny increments - for the last two months in my life has become benzo hell. I’ve learned a lot in the past year about this medication and wish I had never started.
I’m so sorry this happened to you, and scary how much it mirrors our sentiment in the skit. This narrative was told to us by so many patients who came to our clinic after unjustly being cut off their prescribed meds and treated as an “addict”
@@taperclinic thank you for understanding!!!!!
So glad I got to slow taper before I was taken off!
Please get the word out. They will never listen. They will never understand. Aren't there any good people in the osychiatric practice? At all?
Good people who can think for themselves?? (But not people who believe every conspiracy theory out there. People who are intelligent, can read medical literature, can understand science, have common sense.)
We need a class action on it iv never been through so.much torchure in my life 5 urs it's finally over least I think it is
True. But people still in titration STILL NEED TO GET THEM till they are SAFELY off them! Else you know what can happen when people are cold 🦃‘d or titrated too fast! 💀 And another drug substitute is NOT a safe answer! (So glad to see Dr. Horowitz was here! I wish there were a couple billion more like him!)
May I tell you a true story. I sent the book that I wrote about safely tapering off Benzos and my horror story of withdrawals (self- published) and she reported my book to Amazon for spreading false information. Of course I had deep enough pockets to get my book back online but my point is that with her M.D. - her word was taken over mine. Insane! And I sent the book so she could LEARN from me. Never even used her name.
I see where you're trying to be funny, but need my temazepam or else I won't get an adequate amount of sleep. Nice attempt at humor, though.
Please understand benzodiazepine injury and benzodiazepine tapering injuries like Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction. I also took a benzodiazepine for sleep and as a muscle relaxant. I got very, very hurt while stopping them.
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