In her Mad in America blog, ‘Killer Brain Candy: One Woman’s Odyssey Through Benzodiazepine Addiction and Withdrawal or How Chicken Little Got Her Head Crushed’, Melissa Bond describes the history of becoming dependent upon Ativan (generic name, Lorazapam), one of the most potent of the benzodiazepines, and her journey to come off of them. You can read the blog in its entirety here.