This book is about a woman who suffers from withdrawal after deciding to quit taking Valium cold turkey. The effects of this withdrawal plunges her into a hard mental health system in the mid 70s. She finally gets the help she needs and fights to get her life back.I liked the book because it wa...
A true story and a sad one as Emmy award winning documentary producer, Barbara Gordon, tells of her addiction, crash, and recovery from prescription drugs in the 1970s. The ho-hum attitude of the doctor who prescribed the drugs is only outweighed by the crazy sexist attitudes of doctors she goes ...