“Somewhere along the way, the message got lost

“Somewhere along the way, the message got lost, and patients were allowed to use benzodiazepines for months and years,” said Mohit P. Chopra, M.D., a member of APA’s Council on Geriatric Psychiatry. Chopra, who was not involved with the study, told Psychiatric News that guidelines recommend that the anxiolytic and insomnia medicines are to be used on a daily basis for no longer than four to six weeks."

Really ? Tell me about it ....... 

http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=1917576

I wonder if four to six weeks is too long. So many get addicted earlier than that.