Скачать или смотреть From Cure to Curse: How a Mental Health Drug Escaped Control

They called it a miracle drug. Safer than anything before it. Doctors prescribed it like candy. Millions took it daily. The pharmaceutical industry made billions. Then people tried to stop taking it... and discovered they couldn't. What was supposed to cure anxiety became a chemical prison worse than the disease itself. This is the story of benzodiazepines—how a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery turned into one of medicine's biggest catastrophes, and why millions are still trapped today. The pills your grandmother takes. The prescription your doctor writes without thinking twice. The epidemic hiding in plain sight.

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📚Sources that inspired us and that we used to create this video:
→ "Benzodiazepines: How They Work and How to Withdraw" by Professor Heather Ashton (2002) - https://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/
→ "Addiction by Prescription: One Woman's Triumph and Fight for Change" by Joan E. Gadsby (2000)
→ British Medical Journal study on benzodiazepine dependence and dementia risk (2012) - https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e...
→ "The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs: Tranquilizers" by Malcolm H. Lader (1985)

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