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When my doctor abandoned me years ago and I wound up on the psychiatric ward of the hospital at age 67 I knew I had to stop with the Benzos. I had to find an alternative and I did. Thank God. We can’t depend on these doctors prescribing controlled substances long term, they’re afraid of losing their licenses and we can’t blame them.

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My family doctor of 24 years is semi retired, I think that next year he’ll probably stop working. I am obviously nervous about this because he’s the one who fills my prescription, he did assure me that he will have another doctor take over his practice however as much as this is a comfort to me living in Canada where doctors are very scarce, it won’t guarantee me that a new doctor will do the same thing for me. I’m trying not to get ahead of myself, I’ve been trying to get used to living life in the moment but the mind is often hard to control. Perhaps on a positive note the new doctor will be more experienced in helping me out with the benzodiazepine. I never realized that you were abandoned by your doctor, I had and still have nightmares about that, it’s so good to hear that you’re past this horrible experience and living your life without these meds, it really gives me hope to carry on trying.