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Greenlighter
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- Sep 14, 2016
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I am not prescribed this but friends and relatives are being phoned by pharmacists and nurses from get this- Community Addiction Teams ( whose time might be better spent elsewhere) indeed my key worker is spending part of their time engaged in this- and told it's being withdrawn early next year.
Some had to go to GP who confirmed same and moved them from monthly to weekly prescriptions! These people are not all misusers, some are heart patients, people with sleep disturbance and all forms of anxiety. They want to replace diazepam with PREGABILIN!!
No professional has told me this directly but my partner and relatives were told. And that it was decided at board level and will be Trust wide.
Anyone else affected or heard this? Is it just Northern Ireland. Or the Northern trust area. Diazepam can be a wonder drug. And as I'm just out of rehab I have seen firsthand that its the Lyrica that is the problem here not NHS Benzos.
People will have to go elsewhere for their Diaz and here that means street "loyalist blues" pills which have killed dozens over the years.
note to mod:I don't post much so if this is inappropriate feel free to delete.
Some had to go to GP who confirmed same and moved them from monthly to weekly prescriptions! These people are not all misusers, some are heart patients, people with sleep disturbance and all forms of anxiety. They want to replace diazepam with PREGABILIN!!
No professional has told me this directly but my partner and relatives were told. And that it was decided at board level and will be Trust wide.
Anyone else affected or heard this? Is it just Northern Ireland. Or the Northern trust area. Diazepam can be a wonder drug. And as I'm just out of rehab I have seen firsthand that its the Lyrica that is the problem here not NHS Benzos.
People will have to go elsewhere for their Diaz and here that means street "loyalist blues" pills which have killed dozens over the years.
note to mod:I don't post much so if this is inappropriate feel free to delete.