When Vulnerable Patients Are Pressured Into Dangerous Medications

The full impact of this hit me today, and I feel like I need to speak up. A close friend of mine spent a full month in the hospital due to severe complications from cancer that left her unable to walk. She was already frightened, exhausted, and fighting for her body and no one should have to endure more than that.

While she was hospitalised, she was asked to confirm her medication list and noticed midazolam listed as something for anxiety. Seeing a powerful sedative included without a clear, compassionate explanation of why it was prescribed or what it could do was deeply distressing especially while she was so vulnerable, immobile, and overwhelmed.

What makes this even harder is that the medical team knew she was using natural alternatives and had strong emotional and personal support in place to help her feel less anxious and bring her body back into balance in a gentler way when she felt overwhelmed.

She wasn’t without support. She had a plan that aligned with her values and her body.

Despite that, she was encouraged to be comfortable agreeing to this medication because she was on an end‑of‑life ward. That assumption alone is devastating. If it weren’t for her strength and the support of friends who were there to question, to advocate, and to say no  this could have been a very different story.

There’s also been public controversy about midazolam’s use, including discussions in the UK around how prescribing of the drug increased early in the COVID‑19 pandemic and how some families and commentators questioned that rise sometimes linking it to former health secretary Matt Hancock, whom critics labelled “Midazolam Matt” online because of that spike in prescriptions and the broader debate.

If you take the time to look into the wider conversations around midazolam, you’ll understand why this raised such deep concern for us. Too often, people are simply told, “this is the medication that will be prescribed,” without fully understanding the potential impact. When someone is scared, weakened, and trusting others with their life, that lack of transparency is not just upsetting it’s dangerous.

Feeling anxious in a situation like this is human. It should be met with empathy, honest communication, and respect not pressure or assumptions about where someone’s life stands.

This experience also reminded me how important it is to learn how to support your body naturally. The more knowledge you have, the better, being able to help yourself, your family, and friends is so important. The longer you wait to start this journey, the more challenging it can become.

I’m so glad I stepped up and started learning what I can use to help me and my family. I even learned from a pharmacist about why so many people are getting sepsis something I had never considered before. That knowledge allowed me to put a plan in place to help our bodies return to balance and protect us.

She is home now, and I am beyond grateful. But today made it painfully clear that we need to say no more.

No more unquestioned consent.

No more silencing intuition.

No more vulnerable people being asked to accept things they don’t fully understand.

Please ask questions. Please advocate. And please remember: speaking up is not being difficult it’s an act of love.

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