Anxiety drugs like Valium are addictive in the same way as heroin, warn scientists

They finally figured that out?

Any chemical that alters the mind or body can become habit forming and or addictive . Some more so than others.

this is not new information...

Society is impatient and always looking for a quick fix......the government knows this and are exploiting it...therefore making millions on our addictions and everything in that process, from rehab to the other drugs that help you get off the original drug.......just a vicious cycle

wow, thats shocking.....no not really

Whoa! Too Far!!

I smoked cannabis tons of times and never have I experienced any withdrawal symptoms like those you see in Trainspotting. You remember that baby on the ROOF.

Crazy business heroin, nothing like cannabis.

heroin AND cannabis? they are not addictive in the same way whatsoever

THE DAILY MAIL IS A BRITISH TABLOID NEWSPAPER. This article is rubbish and holds very little evidence regarding the fact that benzodiazepines (Valium), are very different from drugs derived from opium (Heroin, Hydrocodone, etc.)

Its like saying alcohol is as addictive as meth because both are abused, yet there's no true pharmacological correlation.

STOP POSTING DAILY MAIL ARTICLES, its like believing in the Sun for your factual articles. I'm not supporting the pharmaceutical industry, but for fucks sake, where are these 'researchers' they claim said this? I could post an article saying monkeys are smarter than people if I can say some 'researcher' said so.

RESEARCH YOUR SOURCES PEOPLE!

Cannabis is the least addictive treatment for anxiety, but it is not for all as sometimes it can cause more anxiety depending on the canabinoid cocktail in particular strains.

Benzos are good for drunks who are in the hospital and coming off alcohol.

hey... leave cannabis out of this... cannabis has been proven to be non addictive :D

pharmaceutical companies give doctors a kickback for every drug they prescribe while they make sure you know you need to be on it, probably for life. we aren't people, we're dollar signs. wise up or they'll hook you next.

well, duh.

Yeah, when teenagers want it. It's addictive. Plain and simple. That doesn't mean we need to get rid of it. It's just means we all need to be realistic with ourselves. Not everything is completely good for us . Hell, if you drink too much water you'll drown.

these drugs and the evil corporations and complicit doctors that push them are destroying the very fabric of American life. It is time for us to wake up and stop being addicted to drugs in this country. just because they're prescriptions does not mean they're ok.

When i started shaking after a xanax binge i think i realized this. I should have done a study, and published it!

"as heroin and cannabis... "

150,000 die every year from prescription drugs. wheres the law ? they got MJs doctor for manslaughter...what about the companies that make that poison and push it on our kids ? what about media whores who run there ads every other commercial. we are over-medicated and under-educated.

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der..thats how they are designed and theres a hundred different kinds;.. and they are killers!......adverse side effect may include dying....

yeah, but that shit works!

No shit Sherlock, who gave the first clue?