We have another thrilling and exciting interview for you today around recovery. Melissa Bond joins me to discuss her story of addiction and recovery from benzodiazepines, more specifically, Ativan. Melissa is a narrative journalist and poet. In the years of her dependence on benzodiazepines, she has blogged and become a regular contributor for Mad in America. She is also the author of the memoir Blood Orange Night where she writes about becoming dependent upon and then withdrawing from benzodiazepines. 

 Some of the topics we discussed include:

  Melissa shares her story of addiction to benzodiazepines and how it affected her life with her family (5:53)

  “Benzos are the thieves that take everything.” (21:29)

  How Melissa decided to withdraw from benzos and took it upon herself to do it (24:19)

  Identifying as an addict and why as a culture we must ask, “What is addiction?” (38:12)

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