Thank you
Let's make these links a bit more prominent, lest they become lost in noise:
April's PSB and its implications -- Adobe Flash version (For Windows, and Linux with more or less extreme trickery)
April's PSB and its implications -- PDF version (For Apple, Android and Linux without trickery)
The links above will take you to a presentation authored and created by our resident Mr Stee regarding the upcoming legislation from the perspective of the community it will affect most; the RC benzo using community; the possibly dependent community;
our community.
Posted here with the express wishes and permission of the author.
Now that we are a few months into the post-ban period, it would be interesting to see how many people are presenting at GP's, A&E's or drug services with benzo withdrawal.
Myself, I was buying what I thought was zopiclone but could have been a stronger research benzo (foolish I know) but I cannot get through the day without some drug, my mood is just too low, I am a self harmer and super sensitive. Recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality and C-PTSD hence, shrink agreeing to prescribe, on the condition that I don't top up with my own benzos from the street, if the withdrawals get too much.
They want me off all drugs to start treatment, but if I am mired in anxiety from the withdrawawls, the treatment stands much less of a chance of working.
I am terrified, because I am a natural born worrier, I have financial worries and dreading the magnification of this anxiety, because the last time I cold turkeyed valium, my anxiety drove me to be impulsive and my impulsive actions still cause me problems to this day, and that was seven years ago.
I don't want to be harmed by too rapid a taperr. I was on 75mg unprescribed, and told to stay at that dose till i get my legit script, but I thought a 5mg cut would do no harm, on such a big dose, how wrong I was.
I'd also had two episodes of underdosing because a new supplier warned me not to take 75mg of the diazepam they got me from Serbia. They are very well made looking pills, come in blisters, but sent loose and wrapped in a careful way to avoid detection in the post.