Addiction by Prescription: One Woman's Triumph And Fight For Change

A BOOK THAT WILL SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES!

9 years ago

Addiction by Prescription is a superb book! Written with excellent style, and captivating the reader to continue on. Reccommend to anyone taking benzodiazepines or knows anyone taking benzodiazepines. This book finaly brings to light the horrifying effects that tranquilizers and sleeping pills have on a person. Not only when your taking them, but long after you've been off of them. Joan Gadsby work, research, and passion will save a lot of lifes. She is a Hero ! Buy her book NOW !!

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addiction by prescription

10 years ago

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… + read more

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Nobody Told Me

10 years ago

I was enlightened by this book. I am an addictions counsellor and nobody had told me the pain and suffering benzodiazepines could cause, while using them and while withdrawing from them. I was able to pass the information along to a client who had been combining alcohol and a benzo prescription and behaving very unusually. Normally a mild-mannered man, he was charged with assault on a police officer. This book was an eye-opener, the public needs to be told! Joan's book helped me… + read more

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Endorsements on the back cover

10 years ago

Praise for Addiction by Prescription

"It is over 20 years since I, with others, first drew attention to the extent and severity of dependence on therapeutic doses of benzodiazepines. The suffering goes on, but Joan Gadsby's well researched story should help focus public attention on this appalling problem and it's solution."
---Dr. Malcolm Lader, Professor of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England

"...a must read for anybody who has ever taken or… + read more

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