Re:Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cogn...
by RGamma on Saturday May 14, 2022 @05:49PM
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Weird this can happen in the EU to be honest.
In Germany these things are really difficult to come by for these minor reasons (it's probably different for the critically ill but I wouldn't know).
Briefly, doctors have to have special permissions to prescribe potentially addictive or mentally altering substances and it's only with a special, bureaucratic kind of prescription ("BtM-Rezept").
That's why I always wonder how this can happen so casually. If I'd ask my GP for benzos for sleep problems I'd most certainly not get them even if he'd be allowed to prescribe them and reckless prescription in this case could lose him his license.
In Germany these things are really difficult to come by for these minor reasons (it's probably different for the critically ill but I wouldn't know).
Briefly, doctors have to have special permissions to prescribe potentially addictive or mentally altering substances and it's only with a special, bureaucratic kind of prescription ("BtM-Rezept").
That's why I always wonder how this can happen so casually. If I'd ask my GP for benzos for sleep problems I'd most certainly not get them even if he'd be allowed to prescribe them and reckless prescription in this case could lose him his license.