One womans fight for change. And change it is! This book is
clearing the shelves at bookstores so quickly in Victoria, I feel
lucky to have bought the second to last one at Chapters. I could
not wait to get comfortable at home and start my journey. It has
taken three days to complete it. And what a journey it has been!
And still is. The experience, strength, and hope that myself and
thousands of other sufferers of benzo addiction will have. For
myself, a lifetime of alcohol abuse and prescription drug use came
to an end when I entered A.A. Actually, after nine months without
alcohol and getting much worse. I had to look at maybe the
psyciatrists "help" with prescribing four meds.(drugs) at one time
may be the problem. I started to balk at not being able to function
and her answer was to"Lets throw another psyciatric highball at you
and see what happens!" All this time I figured that since I was
doing so badly on these things, I would probably fold completely if
I stopped taking them. But something happened that made me very
angry with my Doctor and I refused to return to her. After two days
of being terrified I actually began to function as the drugs left
my system. Then, after a few more days withdrawl from the benzos
began. It was the Drug and Alcohol councellor that offered the
information on what I was experiencing. NOT MY GP! Thanks