...good point you make but for me it was a doctor wanted me off and fast, new one at clinic.....to take last five pills and no more after 15 or so years! then my gp left and i had no doctor so went to clinic and emerge and was treated like a drug seeker.... woman dr even called me that... so here i am addicted to a drug no one told me would be so awful going off it .... the doctors here in Canada want people off them but provide no help quitting etc ... when i went into withdrawal, little old lady me, i felt like going downtown and trying to buy some thats how bad it was: i do not abuse meds but was treated like a drug addict when trying to get them with no doctor! unbelievable i found myself in that predicament!