Reference: DRUGS OF ABUSE 2nd edition, Pharmaceutical Press, London UK same publisher of MARTINDALE THE COMPLETE DRUG REFERENCE FOR 43 countries. London UK.
page 220. Printed in 2005. quote: In 2002, family doctors, in England, wrote 12.7 million prescriptions for benzodiazepines. This compares to 15,8 million in year 1992, and over
30 (thirty) million in the late 1970's, suggesting that doctors are gradually acting to combat the problem of benzodiazepine dependence.
In the USA, in the year 1975, and 1976, Roche Valium Prescription Fills and Refills, leveled out at sixty million individual scripts filled to USA citizens, when the USA last census of
population count in the the 50 states was around 240 million people. Source: various legit sources, Pharmacy Times, the National Board of Pharmacy, "60 Minutes CBS TV news
show", Pharmaceutical data services, Scottsdale, Arizona USA. By the calendar year 2008, Roche and all generic Diazepam prescriptions had fallen to 13,870,156 prescriptions filled
and refilled. a dramatic drop off. Also, Alprazolam, both brand Pfizer Xanax and generics by everyone in USA, was the top seller with, 43,585,790 prescriptions filled in the same year.
Lorazepam generic and brand Ativan, filled and refilled, 22,042,645 prescriptions and refills. Finally Clonazepam, fills were at, 21, 845,899 prescriptions filled, the same year.
Source: REDBOOK PHARMACY'S FUNDAMENTAL REFERENCE 113th edition, page 185, audit by Verispan's Vertor One Reports. The USA population had also risen to 315 million people.
No 1. Diazepam has lost "king of the hill" in benzo RX's filled by a huge margin. Yet, from 1975 with Roche Valium with no real competition, it held 25% of USA adults using Diazepam,
with Roche under 100% control, that is, like one out of every 4 USA citizens taking Roche Valium. By 2008, the percentage of USA citizens, adults, taking benzo's actually rose to about
32% of the rising population taking a benzodiazepine. Listed above. Like one out of every 3 adults, in the USA. Same Source, REDBOOK. already cited.
It has been cited by the late brilliant chemist, who discovered Roche Valium, Leo Sternbach, in the pivotal book titled: GOOD CHEMISTRY by McGraw-Hill (2004) ISBN #
0-07-142617-5 that on from the late 1970's in general, quote page 104, "The Backlash" and on page 109 "The Pendulum Has Swings" due to overenthusiastic prescribing of benzo's
in the 1970's and 1980's. more quotes, the pendulum of opinion had swung on benzodiazepine use had swung too far in the opposite direction, unquote, page 109, with the exception,
of a few countries, such as in Scandinavia, and, the USA. IMHO benzo prescribing in the here and now, in the USA in 2016, has not grown, but, has at best, leveled off, if not
declining, due to attitudes of the medical community, in the USA, and statistics. It is declining in the UK, and, in many modern countries of the modern industrialized world, listed in
MARTINDALE, THE COMPLETE DRUG REFERENCE. Leo Sternbach, born 1908 died 2008, founder of 1/2 dozen Roche benzo's in his wonderful career.