A guide for carers who are helping people to recover from benzodiazepine dependence
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The Guide is in 3 parts.
The Guide is in 3 parts.
• Part 1 attempts to explain what benzodiazepines are and how they work
• Part 2 is intended to help carers as they support people withdrawing from the drugs
• Part 3 contains additional information.
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It describes the journey from a carer’s point of view, and includes not only our own personal experiences, but those of the people we have met. It is written primarily for other carers and those who are supporting or involved with the sufferer, or trying to understand what is happening to them.
It describes the journey from a carer’s point of view, and includes not only our own personal experiences, but those of the people we have met. It is written primarily for other carers and those who are supporting or involved with the sufferer, or trying to understand what is happening to them.
It aims to explain what benzodiazepines are, how people become unwittingly addicted to them, how that addiction affects them, the difficulty of recovering from it and the support they need in doing so.
It is said that some people manage to withdraw from benzodiazepine dependence quickly and painlessly. Whether true or not others find withdrawal difficult and disturbing, and this account is principally for those and their carers. I have tried not to paint too gloomy a picture but it is as well for people to understand what might happen, so that they are forewarned. If a person’s recovery turns out to be easier than my wife’s so much the better.
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