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The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines


In April of 2021, I walked into Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). I had been feeling increasingly unstable, and despite not having a plan, my fantasies of suicide were getting harder to ignore. After unburdening myself to a triage nurse, I was ushered into a windowless room, relieved of my belt, and […]

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