For anxiety, doctors and psychiatrists love to prescribe benzodiazepines which help induce “hypnotic, sleep-inducing, anxiolytic, anti-convulsive and muscle relaxing properties.”  However, as mentioned by Malcolm Lader – an expert in Benzodiazepines from London’s Institute of Psychiatry – they are the “Opium of the Masses”. This is strange because one would think that “opium” would be the opium of the masses, but considering that Lader is the expert – we’ll give him the last word on that.