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Safer Approaches for Chronic Insomnia and Anxiety
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Safer Approaches for Chronic Insomnia and Anxiety
For many people, benzodiazepines ease anxiety and bring sleep. That part isn’t in dispute. They work fast, they work reliably, and for someone who has been lying awake for weeks, the relief can feel like the first good thing to happen in a long time.
The trouble starts later. The occasional dose becomes the nightly one. The dose that worked stops working. And the drug that solved the problem becomes a second problem sitting on top of the first.
Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring has spent his career on both sides of that story. He reviewed adverse drug reactions at the FDA’s Division of Psychiatry. He now runs TaperClinic, the largest practice in the world devoted to helping people get off psychiatric medications. By his estimate, 9% of Americans are currently taking a benzodiazepine, drugs approved on trials as short as eight weeks.
All that begs the question: does this treatment address the root cause, or cover it up? Dr. Varon and Dr. Witt-Doerring unpack it in this episode.
Watch Here : https://imahealth.org/sleep-anxiety-benzodiazepines-when-medications-help-and-when-they-harm/
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