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      <title>Ms Judy Ballou [Signature #264]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21703639?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ms Judy Ballou, Derry, NH, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Oct 2017 03:00:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Francis Costello [Signature #263]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Francis Costello, prestwich, lancashire, United Kingdom<p>They have made me barking mad</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:24:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #262]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Middletown, NJ, United States of America<p>These drugs should be made illegal.  There needs to be more awareness in the medical community about the dangers of these drugs.  They should never be prescribed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 04:04:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Patricia Tinsley [Signature #261]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Patricia Tinsley, newton-le-willows, merseyside, United Kingdom<p>I was prescribed 3 different antidepressants I am currently off my second one but I&#039;m having bad side affects, the last one is clonazapam which I have been on for at least 6 years with no reviews. It should be closely monitored and not be given out like candy.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:53:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms. Sarah Howard [Signature #260]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Sarah Howard, Modesto, CA, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:49:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #259]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18233924?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Auburn, Maine, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 2 Dec 2014 09:34:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Florentina Zaharia [Signature #258]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Florentina Zaharia, Ovidiu, Constanta, Romania]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:22:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Tamsin Keone [Signature #257]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tamsin Keone, Honolulu, HI, United States of America<p>Benzos need to be taken off of the market. They are a menace to society. Think of the money and resources that could be saved if people like me were still working and were productive and contributing members of society. Instead thousands are jobless, stuck at home, bedridden. Let&#039;s stop the pharmaceutical companies from making this poison.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 6 Sep 2014 10:10:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #256]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17715643?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Monroe, GA, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2014 02:36:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Baftiar Tuci [Signature #255]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16753784?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Baftiar Tuci, Durres, Durres, Albania]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:02:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #254]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16753773?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Tirana, Tirana, Albania]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:00:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #253]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, st louis, mo, United States of America<p>This class drug had caused my son to suffer unimaginable pain because his doctor prescribed it for 3 1/2 years. Please limit this class of drugs to very short term. People need to be warned that it also causes brain damage when prescribed long term. This is a very very dangerous class of drugs.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:34:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Christina Aye [Signature #252]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Christina Aye, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:32:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms jessica falstein [Signature #251]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms jessica falstein, nyc, ny, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:45:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Kathryn Egan [Signature #250]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Kathryn Egan, Edmnton, Alberta, Canada<p>I believe this must extend beyond the UK borders.  In fact, this terrible problem, is now a world wide epidemic.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:38:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Alison Nugent [Signature #249]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alison Nugent, Englewood, Fl, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:45:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mark Macfarlane [Signature #248]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mark Macfarlane, Perth, Tayaide, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:15:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Madeleine Lapointe-Millar [Signature #247]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Madeleine Lapointe-Millar, Kanata, ON, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:45:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #246]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Brighton, MI, United States of America<p>Coming off benzos is the most difficult thing I&#039;ve ever done.  Benzo dependency is a public health problem.  If doctors put us on this stuff, they should be educated and assistive in getting us off in a safe manner.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:45:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Danice Dearborn [Signature #245]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Danice Dearborn, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:14:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Erika Kosztandi [Signature #244]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Erika Kosztandi, Romania, Covasna, Romania]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:13:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Debbie Zupa [Signature #243]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Debbie Zupa, Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:08:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Marc Starr [Signature #242]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Marc Starr, Alabaster, AL, United States of America<p>Hopefully inform the doctors and the public in the US also in the dangers of long term benzo use</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:06:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Sandra Villarreal [Signature #241]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sandra Villarreal, Plainwell, MI, United States of America<p>I wish they had this here in America where the epidemic is just as bad.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:47:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Barry Jump [Signature #240]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Barry Jump, Teignmouth, Devon, United Kingdom<p>My wife was put on Zopiclone 6 years ago. Even though the Mental Health Service know it is addictive, 5 doctors have not done anything to get her off it. They have their heads in the sand and pretend it is not a problem. My wife and I have had 6 years of hell. Complaints are just ignored.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:56:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Diana Langdon [Signature #239]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Diana Langdon, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<p>I was on zopiclone for 14 years, it totally destroyed my life, my Doctor prescibed me 15 mg per night, twice the recommended dosage, but I never realized what was happening to me, memory orpblems, blackouts and I never put 2 and 2 together until I tried to commit suicide.  I have been drug free now for 15 months thank god.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:10:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr David Allen [Signature #238]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14304554?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Allen, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:55:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Nikhilesh jain [Signature #237]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14113401?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Nikhilesh jain, Mumbai, India, India<p>Help the needy.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:25:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Vicki Ellis [Signature #236]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13412042?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Vicki Ellis, Chico, CA, United States of America<p>My husband has been on klonopin for panic attacks for over 15 years. He takes much less than his prescribed dosage of 2 mg. 3 times a day. It doesn&#039;t always work for panic attacks, but it ALWAYS messes his mind up so he cannot remember things. To top this he has also been on the same muscle relaxants -Soma -and the same opiate pain pills for over that long. Nothing works for pain or muscle spasms anymore. He is working with his doctor to go off these drugs and the agony he has is horrible for me and him alike.<br />
Drs. in all continents should be held more accountable when prescribing drugs that can mess up a person&#039;s mind more than street drugs. They are the legal pushers, backed in a money game by Big Pharmaceutical companies who really don&#039;t care about an individual&#039;s long term health, they just want to make money. This is a ridiculously poor motivation for Drs. who swear to do no harm.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:04:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Ruth Simmons [Signature #235]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Ruth Simmons, MAITLAND, NSW, Australia<p>I was first prescribed Valium at the age of 3 and a half years of age. This prescription continued for 12 years, to treat a &quot;seizure disorder&quot;?? Whilst still breathing today, This HIDEOUS Drug CAME AT A COST! The shame and isolation associated with the Depression, anxiety, loss of friends and the ability to hold down a job have slowly killed me. INNOCENT &amp; &quot;Forced&quot; to take &quot;antiepileptic&quot; drugs forever, my children were also severely affected, having to take anti-seizure meds during pregnancy.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 03:41:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Nick Farrar [Signature #234]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Nick Farrar, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:43:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Samantha Allington [Signature #233]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12533235?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Miss Samantha Allington, Stevenage, Herts, United Kingdom<p>Trying to come off Lorazepam and feel like I want to die. I just cant do it</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:56:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Lisa fuchs [Signature #232]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12467579?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Lisa fuchs, aviemore, highland, United Kingdom<p>Irresponsible prescribing by my GPs of benzodiazepines and zopiclone has robbed me of the last 15 years of my life.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:46:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Thomas Pfrommer [Signature #231]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12464582?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Thomas Pfrommer, Palm Coast, FL, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:51:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Henryk Behr [Signature #230]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Henryk Behr, Tayport, Fife, United Kingdom<p>It&#039;s outrageous - I am coming off Valium with horrific symptoms after 18 months on for another medical problem, I was not informed of the dangers, and my doctor has no idea how long or how devastating is the road to get off this poison. He suggested I cut back far too quickly and I found myself with brain seizures and hallucinating. A law needs to be passed outlawing the use of Benzodiazapenes for any more than a few weeks of concurrent use, Doctors need educating - FAST!!!!!!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:59:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Robert Oldfield [Signature #229]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12260696?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Robert Oldfield, Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom<p>All GPs and probably most psychiatrists need up-to-date training regarding the true problems associated with, not only benzodiazepines, but also the damage  caused by indiscriminate routine use of all psychoactive drugs.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:49:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr lionel ashley vye [Signature #228]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr lionel ashley vye, enfield, london, United Kingdom<p>i support this as this is a subject that has a lot of common ground with alcohol addiction, a similar withdrawal mechanism and the same symptoms. it really is a scandal that it has been allowed to get to this point, the medical profession should not be there to help make  profits for the multinational drug corporations.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:55:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss emma singleton [Signature #227]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss emma singleton, torquay, Devon, United Kingdom<p>am addicted to benzos and sleeping tablets,thanks to my local mental health authority!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:20:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Vicky Barton [Signature #226]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11348152?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Miss Vicky Barton, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:09:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Seth Ghiorse [Signature #225]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11176677?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Seth Ghiorse, Bel Air, Maryland, United States of America<p>I am a victim of medical ignorance. I am a husband and father of three teenagers. I am currently halfway through a two-year withdrawal from Klonopin, which is threatening my livelyhood and my family. Each day I struggle to stay functional as I slowly reduce. This long drawn out process has put enormous strain on all aspects of my life. And to think it was all avoidable had I or my doctor known the consequences. Please, you must do something. It is all so very wrong and I am on my own in this.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:59:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr terence medhurst [Signature #224]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr terence medhurst, eastbourne, eastsussex, United Kingdom<p>my mother had been taking tomazipam 20years never sleeps well now has all muscle weakness and taking more depression pills hypertension pills I am now on the case have discussed with doctor withdrawal vertually not interested must admitt he has not been her doctor for long but she like other people her age 82 always belive the doctor is right she has every symtom so far related doctors have a lot to answer for am now trying to get mum back to reality and is slowly responding nobody should have t</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 6 Aug 2011 06:05:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Lynn Hook [Signature #223]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Lynn Hook, Finchampstead, Berkshire, United Kingdom<p>I was prescribed Ativan for anxiety.. originally 4 mgs per day, but then developed depression, so anti dep prescribed. Discharged from hospital, low dose anti dep, still on 2.5 mg ativan... didn&#039;t get better, got worse,not surprisingly. Its a year now, am on two anti deps and finally with the NHS psychiatrist reducing Diazepam by half mg per week. Feel suicidal most of the time. So thank you private psychiatrist for turning me into an involuntary addict. NICE guidelines???</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:23:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Robbie Yapp [Signature #222]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Robbie Yapp, Pembroke, South Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:34:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Sandy Hay [Signature #221]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Sandy Hay, Pembroke, South Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:33:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Eleanor Dixon [Signature #220]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Eleanor Dixon, Doncaster, Yorkshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:18:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MRS AMY FOURLIS [Signature #219]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MRS AMY FOURLIS, DONCASTER, SOUTH YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom<p>I would like to support this petition, I found my uncles comment he was Ernest Geeson. Sadly he took his life in January 2008. He was a classic example of a living hell being addicted to these drugs - read his comment. RIP to a much loved great man x Amy</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:24:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Michelle Clark [Signature #218]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Michelle Clark, Noble park north, Victoria, Australia<p>Prescribed valium at 15. Addicted for 9 years. Finally found doc who realized straightaway benzos were causing most if not all of my problems.  I was on a scholarship before Valium. I&#039;m trying to rebuild my life I just can&#039;t believe modern medicine would do let this go so far. I was told by my gp that these dangers were well known long before I was prescribed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:39:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #217]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Aston Tiorrold, Oxon, United Kingdom<p>I am impacted directly by the wrong prescribing of Ativan. which I was kept on for 12months. I am now stuggling like Hell via a diazepam Taper to get off this poison and get a life back. I am barely functional and am not working.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Sanae Morita, Edogawaku, Tokyo, Japan<p>I myself am the victim of Benzodiazepins and am now struglling so hard to reduce the daily dose. Unfortunately, here in Japan, there is no help or support by doctors and the goverment. I now strongly believe that 99% of psychiatrists in Japan are serial killers.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms elizabeth beal, wheeling, west virginia, United States of America<p>benzos are the walking dead. i lost everything from my addiction.  starting over and its great to be alive!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Chad Gustafson, Marsellies, ILLINOIS, United States of America<p>I was never informed, more that the word addicting. I am hurting everyday slowly getting off this medication. I was fine before all this, now I have lost too much. I never want anyone else to have to go through this. There has to be better warnings and not handing it out for the drug companies, and doctors to experiment with.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr andrew hajikakou, prestwich. manchester, lancashire, United Kingdom<p>it will mess your life up.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr antony pascall, norwich, norfolk, United Kingdom<p>i was prescribed diazepam at the age of 14 i am now 30 and i am finding it like a slow suicide. Do not presribe this drug for longer than the stated four weeks.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Matt Swambo, rumney, Cardiff, United Kingdom<p>The benzodiazepine, olanzapine etc problem needs urgent attention.These things are lethal and ruin lifes . It&#039;s time GP&#039;s were trained to help people to withdraw from these drugs, but patients are left to their own devices with frightening result. Where are the withdrawal units where patients can be treated, instead of being left to suffer?</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Bmth, Dorset, United Kingdom<p>Prescribed Diazapam without warning of danger now life ruined through insomnia.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr Nathaniel Hanus, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America<p>coming off kolonopin and lexapro</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jenny Lewis, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom<p>The diazepam problem needs urgent attention. I have been prescribed them for 33 years for back pain and have been, and still am going through hell. It&#039;s time GP&#039;s were trained to help people to withdraw from these drugs, but patients are left to their own devices with frightening result. Gp&#039;s do niot know what they are doing. Tell the world that benzodiazepnes are OUT, and should only be prescribed for very short periods. I am appalled at the ignorance of both doctors and government.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Sunil kumar, Hyderabad, A.P, India<p>Bann these drugs</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:26:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Colleen Leemans, Richards Bay, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa<p>I wish someone had warned me of the dangers of zolpidem. I have been using them for over 7 years (about 15 a night). I just hope it is not to late for me or others that find themselves in the same boat.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Colin young, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom<p>I totally support the cause and would campaign in the house of commons or wherever. I came of benzos fast and went into a mad place for a long time. I now work with a self help group in Bristol and get very frustrated with the lack of Government support. How many people have to become addicted to the so called Z drugs before they fully acknowledge they have the same effects of benzos. They have known about these problems since the sixties and I have plenty of literature to back that up. Good luc</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Caroline Sandwich, Beaminster, Dorset, United Kingdom<p>Benzo withdrawal, specially c/t, is appalling, producing acute mental and physical suffering and terrible benzo thoughts. It also affects everyone around: wife, children, siblings, parents.<br />
Publicly funded centres and helplines are urgently needed to help despairing people in withdrawal. The UK government acts on illegal drug use. Why does it not act to help the millions of inadvertent addicts?</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, London, London, United Kingdom<p>This has been indescribably devastating for me and my family.  There is nothing that can compensate for the fact that almost every day for the last ten months has been like something out of a horror movie.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr john bisgrove, gympie, queensland, Australia<p>PUT ON 30MGM DAILY BY GOVERNMENT 45 Years Ago</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marcy Rohde, West park, NY, United States of America<p>Benzodiazepines have taken 9 years of my 31 years on this earth. They have also robbed my 10 year old daughter and myself of half of her life with me, as she has been living with my mother for the past 5 years due to all of the physical problems that I have developed from my Clonazepam use. Stop prescribing benzodiazepines to people who can overcome their problems in other ways. I pray that physicians start to try and understand the damage that these medicines are doing. This will save lives.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Jill van vucht, Sydney, N.S.W, Australia<p>to get these drugs banned, to raise awarness of the addictive and dangerous &amp; long term withdrawal effects of these drugs &amp; the illness and suffering they cause to people who are ignorant of the dangers &amp; are seeking relief do not  know they will be worse off on these drugs than they could ever imagine it is a ghastly surprise to them &amp; they oftem think their illness is something else &amp; go on a wild goose chase until it finally dawns on them what a shock !</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs. peggy booker, morden, manitoba, Canada<p>I have a new doctor and he wanted me to go off my diazepam which i&#039;v been on for years, 10ml at night before bed, he didn&#039;t tell me how to cut back or how to do this, so i whet down to 5ml for two weeks and then 1/2 of the 5ml for two weeks, then 1/4 for one week,, its been two weeks that i&#039;v been off them and the and been going through hell and back, i&#039;m having jerks in my head and numb feeling , muscles jerks all over , tension in the back neck and head, face spasms ,I&#039;m i going to be OK,,</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Barbara Bell, Stone, staffs, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Michael Hodkinson, Northwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr dan orgill, sutton coldfield, west midlands, United Kingdom<p>addicted to benzos for 4 yrs, SSRI&#039;s for 2yrs and codeine for 1 yr. fortunately i have a natural skepticism of conventional psychiatry, and am fortunate that i have never been referred to one. i was referred to a state funded outpatient addiction centre, but was refused treatment on the grounds that &quot;there is not much demand for the treatment of problems with benzodiazepines&quot;. i havent had to break the law to become completely and utterly hopeless on drugs. i am enraged at this.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Lynn Jones, Pilling Preston, Lancs, United Kingdom<p>Ban Benzos</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr john aidan hall, south shields, tyne and wear, United Kingdom<p>I have been a victim for 30 years sublime in my ignorance !</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #175]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Donapaula, Goa, India]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:01:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Richard Kershaw, London, London, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Mary Baker, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom<p>The benzodiazepines poison people by long-term addiction and many lovely people have died and they continue to die. All political parties and the Government in power should hang their heads in shame but they do not. But we do not forget what damage has been done and is still being perpetrated on unsuspecting patients who are still being prescribed these highly toxic, addictive drugs. Do not expect us to vote for &#039;any&#039; political party that does NOT provide HEALTH CARE for these addicted patients.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Krisztina OBrien, Uxbridge, Middx, United Kingdom<p>involuntary benzo addiction is the most debiliating experience I have ever felt and witnessed in my life. The familes of the dependant are in stake. Many of them have small children like me. If the UK grovement dont force the medicine company to found free consultation and treatment and hospitalization, there will be lots of orphane in this country, crime and other anomalys also happen because benzo withdraval affects. (If nothing else move the MPs the fact that we are tax payer should do it)</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, dover, dover, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 04:47:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs lindsay booth, oldham, lancs, United Kingdom<p>i wish the government would sit up and recognise what a grand scale problem benzo&#039;s have become and offer some relief to the million&#039;s of people left suffering because of these drug&#039;s being overprescribed.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Michele Diamond, Union Beach, NJ, United States of America<p>I have personally lost over a year of my life so far from benzo withdrawal symptoms.</p>]]></description>
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