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Dr. David Juurlink (toxicologist/pharmacologist) tweets re: opioid tapering...


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....much of which could be applied to benzodiazepines. It's an excellent series of nine tweets, starting with a reference to a New York Times article called "When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease". Opioids are obviously different than benzos and involve other issues, but there are major parallels with regards to what Dr. Juurlink is stating in his tweets here about tapering. There's also a link to his excellent article on the difference between dependence and withdrawal in tweet #5. It's worth reading, if you didn't see it when I posted it in August.

 

Start at the top of the series of nine tweets and continue reading downward. The link to the NYTimes article is in the first tweet:

 

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