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Your son will recover. It can take some people years to recover from a benzodiazepine injury. But they do recover 100%. I want you to go to the BenzoInformationCoalition website. You will see hundreds of success stories there along with valuable information and guidance. These folks know exactly what they’re talking about. Years and years of experience on this site. People much much older than your son have recovered and he will too.
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Valium dependence can indeed be catastrophically hard to overcome.
I've taken valium (10 mg/day) for many years (largely to help me with sleep) and my primary concern about it, is that using it at high doses makes it the hardest to get off it .
When I began to take it, the psychiatrist who prescribed it (4 X 10 mg/day) swore up and down it was NOT problematic. This was 50 years ago - not that long after it was first marketed.
As a Jew, I always tried to do without prescription medications on our fast day (Yom Kippur) - anything apart from medically indispensable meds (chemotherapy drugs, hormones, and others).
The first year I consumed it, I was astonished and horrified at my intolerable reaction to that one day without it. I was beyond jittery and unable to function. That's when I realized how much more powerful it was than I'd been told. I reduced the dose to 10 mg/day thereafter (realizing among much else, how ignorant my psychiatrist was).
I also read a book specifically recounting the nightmare experience of a woman's reaction to a dose like mine. Hospitalized for a long time, she struggled for ages to return to her "normal" self. For anyone interested: its title was "I'm dancing as fast as I can."
I scared the hell out of me, thereafter only taking a minimum dose realizing what could happen upon habituating to a significantly higher dose.
Since then I realized how ignorant some psychiatrists can be and how vital it is to take medicines with great caution, according to ones personal experience rather than according to doctors' assurances, however firm. That's when I came up with my new term, " MDeity''. According to that author's experience, it was a nightmare to finally escape its catastrophic effect on her.
TRUST your personal experience! It's YOUR body and mind, and it can cost you your mind and survival to make decisions based solely on a doctor's assurances. however certain s/he may be.
Ever hear this sad "joke": "What do you call someone who graduates at the bottom of his/her medical class?"
Answer: "Doctor".
TRUST YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES!
(Again, look up, "I'm dancing as fast as I can".)