Recovery and Renewal
Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other 'benzo' tranquillisers and antidepressants
by Baylissa Frederick
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Pub Date 21 May 2014 | Archive Date 27 Jul 2014
Description
This easy-to-read, inspirational and supportive guide is essential reading for anyone struggling to overcome prescription drug dependency.
Drawn from the author's personal knowledge of coming off benzodiazepine tranquillisers and her experience as a counsellor, this book explores everything you need to know before, during and after withdrawal, from how to recognise the symptoms to how to manage them and make firm steps towards recovery. With a focus on recovery and empowerment, it provides all the practical and emotional support needed to help you cope and regain control.
This book will be a lifeline for anyone taking or withdrawing from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants. It will also equip family and friends to offer support and provide counsellors, psychotherapists, complementary therapists and other health professionals with invaluable insight critical to providing best care.
Advance Praise
'There are astonishingly few books on dependence on and withdrawal from prescription drugs, and fewer still that are as balanced, informative and helpful as Recovery and Renewal. This is one of the most important areas of medicine but one of the most neglected. Anyone can get you on a drug, but it takes real healing to get you off them.'
–David Healy MD, FRCPsych, Psychiatrist, Psychopharmacologist and Author of Pharmageddon
'This book gives warm-hearted understanding and practical advice about benzodiazepine and antidepressant dependence and withdrawal. It is based on personal experience, since the author has herself been through withdrawal. She is an experienced counsellor who has already helped many others through her support group, Recovery Road; this new edition will extend her proved success and will be a help to many others.'
—Professor C Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP, Clinical Psychopharmacologist and the UK's leading expert on benzodiazepines
'The personal stories are both insightful and at times moving. Having suffered severe and protracted withdrawal from prescription medication herself, Frederick writes from real experience. With practical information about going cold turkey versus tapering, and chapters specifically for caregivers and medical professionals, I will recommend this book for information and inspiration to the patients I see withdrawing from antidepressant and antianxiety medicines.'
–Peter Smith, holistic medical consultant and author of Sleep Better with Natural Therapies
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781849055345 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
