Generation Xanax: The Dark Side of America's Wonder Drug

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“These were never really designed to be long-term medications,” said Dr. Haran Sivakumar, an addiction medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York who also has his own private practice.

Martin, who has been treating patients since the mid-1970s, said, “I’m an expert on this, and I was never aware that there are these patients who have long-term consequences of benzodiazepines. I personally feel a little negligent myself. I was not aware of it, and I should have been.”

Huff, who had graduated at the top of her class as a physician, was outraged that she and other doctors were untrained about the potential ill effects of benzodiazepine use and “some of the most serious risks are not mentioned in the FDA Label—specifically that patients can suffer disabling neurological damage from benzodiazepines, which in some cases may be permanent,” she wrote in 2019.

People who have been taking benzos are walking experiments, the medical community did not do their due diligence with these drugs.