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Professionals can have different views. That is why double blind studies etc. are so important. As I pointed out in the link I examined, the professional was only using case studies, which in science is not weighed heavily due to the lack of double blind, that the doctor can give patients cues, that the doctor will see what they expect to see etc.

This IS medical misinformation when compared with published medical literature.

In fact, I found a paper on addiction and these drugs. It was anti-benzos and you know what it said? That for people who had anxiety prior to their treatment with these medicines, they are helpful. At most, they interfered with those patients who would benefit from an alternate type of talk therapy.

To compare halcion as a representation of benzos is just irresponsible. At one point, they mention that to hospitalization of a drug addict for a drug problem, a premise that is stupid on its face.