Important new info: Benzodiazepines (xanax, valium, ativan, klonopin) increase hypoperfusion and are now linked to Alzheimer's Disease. Not good for people with slowed cerebral bloodflow, like MS.


Drugs used for anxiety, sleep are linked to Alzheimer's disease in older people
www.latimes.com
Older people who have relied on a class of drugs called benzodiazepines to reduce anxiety or induce sleep are at higher risk of going on to develop Alzheimer's disease , new research finds, with those whose use of the medications is most intensive almost twice as likely to develop the mind-robbing d…