If a patient prefers to take, say diazepam or say for pain morphine sulphate, although these drugs are addictive and there is newer drugs, especially for anxiety where diazepam and other benzos fit in, should the doctor let the patient have it or refuse this treatment and give them the newer drugs wich have alot more side effects but are less addictve, and, and this is one of the reasons mainly doctors prefer to not prescribe these drugs anymore, because if they get into the wrong hands they can be misused, although the doctors can write prescriptions for daily pickup of any medication, or stutter a months prescription into weekly pickups, avoiding any chance of misuse, but doing this basicly says that the doctor thinks you may become a drug addict and start hanging around bus stations trying to sell your meds for crystal meth!!!.
seriously thoa what do you think?? is there any GP's here that can give a decent answer to this. i beleive if a paitent dosent have side effects on the diazepam or the morphine sulphate/oramorth, then why prescribe newer drugs that do give them side effects but arent addcitve, or in pain medication terms "less addictive" such as tramadol or codeine.
I have used anxiety and pain as a demo here but it can be in lots of diferent medicines i guess.