Posted by Alan on December 28, 2002, at 19:55:28
In reply to Re: Xanax linked to Dyskinesias, posted by J. Wesley on December 28, 2002, at 16:58:49
> I spent a little time researching the net this afternoon to see if I could find any research showing a link between benzodiazepines and dyskinesias. Here is a link I found. Scroll down to the charts listing meds if you don't want to read all about TD.
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> If anyone has any idea why xanax is listed, please feel free to educate me.
> http://emedicine.com/neuro/topic362.htm#target2
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> J. Wesley
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========================================I'm sorry but that link only gets me to search page.
Besides, simply listing xanax in a catagory without linking to research isn't worth the cyberspace it's listed on.
I'm open-minded to any credible research out there (which by definition completely eliminates "research" from the usual strident anti-benzo sites).
I even called my doc today....head of a large teaching hospital psychiatric dept. because it concerned me.
He later returned my call and when I mentioned bzds and TD he said that yes, there is a link. That bzds are standardly used to *treat* symptoms of TD...that klon was first approved as an anti-convulsant...that many confuse seizures induced from rapid withdrawal from bzds in drug abuse detox centers (and on his hospital psych ward for that matter) with TD.He said that there were no studies that he had ever heard of let alone seen that linked bzds and TD.
He did remind me that he thought that the present fad of prescribing Neuroleptics - even in low doses - for anxiety disorders was at best risky and relatively ineffective, even less effective than AD's (which the manufacturers own tests claim a 30 - 50 percent efficacy rate which is about as close to placebo as one can get).
Bzds have a huge success rate by comparison. By contrast the risks, however one minimises there frequency of occurance, from neuroleptics are some of the most devastating there are.
Alan
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