The Alarming Rise in the Diazepam Intake

Diazepam is known as a medication widely utilized in order to treat nervousness or anxiety. It is also included by World Health Organization as a core drug in the so-called Essential Drug List. This medication has been prescribed by many doctors for the last 40 years to treat a number of different health complications. It is one of the best selling medicines in the US. There are many trade names that mean Diazepam. These are Valium, Diapam, Ducene, and so on.

These days, there are many psychiatrists who keep prescribing their patients to take it to treat anxiety and get a short-term relief from it. This drug mainly affects these chemicals in one’s brain that may cause seizures, anxiety and muscle spasms. Addiction expert: “Diazepam is widely used not only by housewives, but also young people who are not aware of its unwanted side effects. There is a significant factor connected with the increase trade of this drug and many drug-related deaths.”

Police officers: “We suspect that a number of amateur laboratories keep producing this controlled class C medication in response to the rising demand of many users who often prefer to combine it with other components.” Besides, different specialists fear that it is becoming a major issue of all health services. So pharmacists and doctors must be better informed about possible dangers of the intake of Diazepam.

Addaction: “There are many people who prefer to buy this medication on the Internet, especially from websites of India and Pakistan. There is one cheap alternative to it, which is called Benzos, and people turn to it quite often.” Recently, police have unearthed many amateur laboratories that were making some illegal forms of Diazepam. They say: “It is quite a new phenomenon, but we definitely suspect that there are different ongoing production operations”.

It is true that the current rise in the popularity of this medication may be just a part of a wider tendency in drug abuse. Many drug counselors think that people tend to turn to the intake of Diazepam that is often prescribed to treat tension and stress. There are abusers who prefer to mix it even with alcohol, and that’s because it helps to sedate them for a long time. Experts: “We have detected what we call a very alarming rise in different cases connected with the super dosing. This is when people start taking a lot of Diazepam that exceeds their prescribed dosage.”