Growing up in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, Tara Mayer spent her days bareback riding and fishing, showing cattle and throwing cow pies. Surrounded by loving family and friends, joyful living came easily. But soon after she graduated from university, her life began to unravel when her doctor prescribed a benzodiazepine for insomnia.

PHARM GIRL Benzodiazepines and Antidepressants: What Your Doctor Didn't Say, illustrates the painful truth of psychotropic over-prescription and physical dependence, and pulls the reader into the gritty reality of acute and protracted benzodiazepine and antidepressant withdrawal as they occur in a personal story spanning three decades. It follows the crushing collapse of a high functioning and spirited young woman into one with drug-induced mental and physical health challenges, with far-reaching effects on finance, family and quality of life. As she struggles to rear her two children and puzzle out cross-tolerances and compounded micro-tapers, her physicians offer only more pills and disbelief that these common pills could be responsible for her failing abilities.

Interwoven supporting research illuminates psychotropic drug facts, statistics and unethical ties between pharmaceutical companies and organized medicine. Pharm Girl takes you on a powerful journey of self-discovery that will leave you questioning the establishment and physicians' competency in managing psychotropic drugs, and wondering if these drugs were an avoidable cause of the loss of function of someone you know.

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• Publication Date: November 3, 2024
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• Print Length: 255 Pages
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