“Midazolam injection is used before medical procedures and surgery to cause drowsiness, relieve anxiety, and prevent any memory of the event. It is also sometimes given as part of the anesthesia during surgery to produce a loss of consciousness. Midazolam injection is also used to cause a state of decreased consciousness in seriously ill people in intensive care units (ICU) who are breathing with the help of a machine. Midazolam injection is in a class of medications called benzodiazepines.”
“If you receive midazolam injection in the ICU over a long period of time, your body may become dependent on it. Your doctor will probably decrease your dose gradually to prevent withdrawal symptoms such as seizures, uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body, hallucinations (seeing things or hearing voices that do not exist), stomach and muscle cramps, nausea, vomiting, sweating, fast heartbeat, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, and depression.”
[Quotes are from MedlinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a609014.html]
Midazolam (brand name Versed®) also comes as a syrup to take by mouth when it is prescribed for children before medical procedures, or before anesthesia for surgery or dental surgery, in order to cause drowsiness, relieve anxiety, and prevent any memory of the event. It can also be given to prevent seizures, or for chemical restraint (such as for an agitated psychiatric patient,) and may be administered through the nose with an atomizer to an already unconscious person (such as someone having a seizure.) It may also be given by emergency medical personnel outside of a hospital setting.
In one study, the researchers found that “No patient on the low-dose midazolam infusion in our protocol was able to recall any time during paralysis, a testament to the amnestic qualities of this drug.”
More information about the side effects of this drug, and benzodiazepines in general, can be found in the CCHR booklet, “The Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs,” which can be downloaded free from http://www.cchrstl.org/sideeffects.shtml.
What You Should Take Away From This Information
Children and adults can be given this drug with or without permission, in or out of a hospital, by psychiatrists or non-psychiatric doctors or emergency medical personnel. One of the primary reasons for using this drug is to prevent any memory of the event, which has also led to its abuse as a date-rape drug. Psychiatric drugs are not just for psychiatric patients anymore.
While psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life’s problems as an “illness” and stigmatize unwanted behavior or study problems as “diseases” for which they can prescribe harmful and addictive drugs, some of these drugs are now also in standard medical use for non-psychiatric conditions, producing the same horrific side effects, and no one is the wiser. Except you. Let others know. Get the Facts. Fight Back.