A Doctor's Experience with Benzos
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Dr. Alexis Ritvo serves as the Medical Director of the Alliance. She is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine . She has been the program director for the CU addiction psychiatry fellowship since July 2020. She is co-chair of the Benzodiazepine Action Work Group with the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse which she co-founded with Dr. Steven Wright, the former medical director for the Alliance. She has a passion for psychotherapy, teaching and improving health systems and policies. Her professional goals are: 1. To increase psychiatry resident’s competency in evaluating and treating substance use disorders and physical dependence to benzodiazepines in general outpatient psychiatry and 2. to improve patient access to psychiatric treatment for substance use disorders and physical dependence to benzodiazepines co-occurring with other psychiatric disorders.
I've been on Benzos for 40 years, I'm so scared to come off, so very frightened.
It took me 2 years to feel Normal after getting off Clonazepam Nobody warned me. That was 10 years ago I feel Great today!
@@traceyrose6546how are you doing today?
Definitely one of the very best interviews on benzos I’ve ever heard! Thank you! ❤
I’ve recently inherited a caseload of geriatric patients where about 60% of the female patients are inappropriately prescribed long term benzodiazepines. It’s been stressful tapering and discontinue all of these drugs to the point where I almost feel like I need a doctors support group. I appreciate this video.
A bit of humor....I have been on Valium for 33 years at 30 mg. daily. I am tapering and next week I will turn 70. Even now to use me with the word geriatric sounds so inappropriate. I know technically it isn't. It just struck me oddly to see it.
@@maryweddle4150 I’m 62 and I feel your geriatric pain 😂
I am turning 69 next month and I have been tapering for 20 months. I was about to jump and I became dizzy and fell and broke three bones, two in right wrist and I had to increase my medication. This time around I am going to switch to valium when I get to 1/2 mg. Sorry, you are having to deal with this.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much.
This was very helpful, thank you.
God work 🙏🏽
The words I have for Psychiatrists would be Banned on this platform.
Benzodiazepines caused my agoraphobia. I now want off of the Librium. Luckily it's so much easier to taper off of the Librium especially since my underlying condition of hypothyroidism has been treated.
Dear all,
For some unknown reason, TAKING PREGABALIN PREVENTS BENZODIAZEPINE WITHDRAWAL. This is a relatively unknown and very new fact. I wonder if you might be able to find the time to comment. Thank you so very much
Hoping to make a positive and lasting contribution to this latest epidemic.
What do you mean? If you take pregabalin you won't get withdrawal symptoms? Tell me more!
Thank you! Oklahoma USA
How long do you hold the frozen washcloth under your eyes?? Please!!!!♥️♥️♥️
Yes she didn’t say exactly, but she did day you could also put your face under water and says you don’t have to hold your breath for long, not till you’re uncomfortable. To me, this sounds like it only takes a short time, maybe a minute. She said there are TH-cam videos about it.
Thank you! Ready set go. You are very kind!!!!!
Angela, how do l get in contact with you about tapering?
Joseph Stalin's characterization of those in the helping and control professions is worthy of note: "Useful Idiots".
This conversation is so depressing and incompetent as to void out any and all hope for those affected by prescription drug injury.
No benzos no pain killers no sleeping pills treatment from you people is bad meds are needed