Patient Pays $90k for Rehab Only to be Put into Severe Benzodiazepine Withdrawal

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10 ай бұрын

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Guest Bio: Dr. Patricia Halligan is an Addiction Psychiatrist. She completed her psychiatry residency at Cornell-The New York Hospital and Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is double board certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry and holds medical licenses in both New York and South Carolina. Dr. Halligan is an advocate for those suffering during the Opioid Epidemic and an avid Buprenorphine prescriber since 2003. She is active in the fight against the overprescribing of Benzodiazepines and Z drugs and has been performing long slow Valium tapers in her private practice for decades. Dr. Halligan believes in the power of connection and trained at the Center for Group Studies in NYC to run modern analytic groups for people in recovery. To learn more about Dr. Halligan, visit: www.drpatriciahalligan.com/

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@MedicatingNormal 10 ай бұрын

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@jessicavegan 5 ай бұрын

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@user-dg7sy8cz3b 10 ай бұрын

Families often absolutely refuse to believe this information. Including mine.

@pf100andahalf 10 ай бұрын

Same here. What I eventually did was stop caring if they believed it or not, and I didn't care if they didn't like it or what their reaction would be. It was the turning point for me where they began to believe me but even then I made it clear that I still didn't care if they believed me or not and I'm still that way to this day. It's the only thing that worked.

@ajax700 10 ай бұрын

It's all your mind, your depression, your anxiety. I think it is so evil the damage these drugs cause that most persons tend to refuse to believe it a priori. Please tell me how watery semen is my mind... We must have very powerful minds after taking these evil pharma poisons. Best wishes.

@catherinewoodruff7648 10 ай бұрын

My family never believed me, despite the obvious physical signs. They assumed my mental health had plummeted following my surgery and had PTSD. It was only when the Dr's fast tapered my mother off the same drug (rendering her bedridden for a week before being rushed into hospital with a massive heart attack) that they believed me. My family even advocated and challenged the medical professionals in the A&E department when they contested it was not the drug/fast tapering that caused the heart attack. It was a bitter sweet moment watching them frantically reading the resources I begged them to read during my ordeal

@pf100andahalf 10 ай бұрын

@@catherinewoodruff7648 Try not to be bitter about it. Even though I'll never forget how people didn't believe me, it just hurts me going forward to stay mad about it.

@Filthycoffin 10 ай бұрын

My detox facility detox me in three days off of 12 years, 3 mg Klonopin, 3 mg of Lunesta, and a whole bunch of psych drugs. I am surprised I am still alive. I had escaped the detox on the third day, though my roommate tried to attack me and I ran out into the woods in the mountains of twin peaks in California, the police took me back to the detox. Detox tried to send me to an inpatient facility in California, but I refused, and I flew home on an airplane in severe withdrawal. I lost my entire family in my home. I had a stroke on the plane and seizures. I am still not on any medication and I’m almost 2 years out on my birthday September 11. I will be two years. I have worked some and I am working right now. Actually life is still really fucked up and really fucking hard.

@dianemorrell9638 10 ай бұрын

Do you realize what a fighter you are? It's an indescribable nightmare so many of us fall into. It must have been absolute hell......

@Filthycoffin 7 ай бұрын

@@dianemorrell9638 I think it is worse is dealing with a narcissistic ex through this and going through divorce and having to endure abuse while still going through the symptoms. My ex would tell me to kill myself that my life didn’t matter, but I was a worthless mom whenever I ended up on the Benzo, because of the abuse to begin with. I can’t wait for the nightmare to be over from getting away from him. I wish I could get my kids back and save them from him.

@ellaMel4632 3 ай бұрын

Did they use phenobarbital and Gabapentin for detox ? My dr wants me to try it to detox from Ativan after 8 months. Need help

@THXx1138 10 ай бұрын

I went to Alternative to Meds Center - $50K - 3 days in they cut my benzo dose in half. I had to escape that place 3 weeks later.

@nwicconsultants6640 10 ай бұрын

Hope you are doing well now. 😇

@kata6966 10 ай бұрын

So glad I came across your comment. I have been trying to convince my son to consider Alternative Med Center to help ease the painful process of his taper from Clozapine. Based on the videos I was seeing from Alternative Med Center, I felt a sense of hope. It appeared that these people were sincere and knowledgeable but the cost of $65,000 is hard to swallow. Going through this painful journey with my son has made me realize that most people try to take advantage of the ones who are suffering and who are desperate for relief.

@ajax700 10 ай бұрын

All obscenely profit with the people in need. Even supposedly better "alternative" medicine. There is only two medicines. True and false. True works, false does not work and even damages persons. Today most medicine does not work. If you are lucky it's placebo. If you are unlucky it's dangerous drugs / procedures. Best wishes.

@madelynhernandez7453 10 ай бұрын

Isn't that the center in Arizona that supposedly knows about benzo withdrawal.

@heathercouch5075 10 ай бұрын

If you are able to prescribe a BZD then you should know how to taper appropriately, otherwise don’t go there. Any provider ought to know that BZDs prescribed more than a few days can lead to rebound anxiety. Why would you want to do that to a patient? It’s lazy and reckless medicine.

@ajax700 10 ай бұрын

Falsified medicine posing as medicine is not true medicine. Best wishes.

@thereGoMapo 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for getting this information out

@corvettedm1 7 ай бұрын

I stayed home when quitting

@mullinpeggy 10 ай бұрын

3 60 failed rehabs only caused more harms.

@kevk741 10 ай бұрын

I’m not even close to okay 41mths later. Can you IMAGINE me paying $30,000/mth? I’d of paid $1.2 million and still been broken as ever? I bet there are a MILLION detox centers that would tell me that my life would be completely different in 2 years if I just “put in the work”? I put in the work alright. I reached the end of the god damn internet after 3 years of living with chronic akathisia and the rest of this tardive madness. Speaking of money, I SHOULD be getting $30,000/mth in compensation. I had no idea if you got this hurt from a medicine that someone’s insurance would not be offering me something? I don’t think people realize how on your own you are after you take a medication? Doctors will gaslight you and tell you that the medication can’t do that until it’s been well over 2 years. Maybe even for 30 years? Either way, the statues run out. The doctors are covered under “acceptable practice”, but all that means is that, if another ignorant doctor says they’d do it, then it’s okay. Personally, I think there should be no more tolerance for ignorance. Acceptable practice is no longer acceptable.

@madelynhernandez7453 10 ай бұрын

I agree with you about these doctors practices, its fucking gross. I think we should all be recompensated but there are so many of us that they could never have enough money. Who will recompensate those who took their lives. I honestly feel I will end up being part of that group. Its evil the shot they are doing and what they have done. Many of us have lost everything and many have no support at all. Imagine the poor animals that got these drugs tested on. Fack its so horrific for me to even think of that..I hope death came to them quickly or they where put out of their misery. By the way I hope with all my heart that your full healing comes soon..41 months is a long time in. I am only 21 months in from antidepressants and 4 months off the benzo. The withdrawl from the antidepressant has been bruttal bit the benzo took all that and said, no no, ILL SHOW YOU THE DEPTHS OF HELL. I had to reinstate the monster because I cant take the psychotic breaks. I feel stuck and I don't know if I will ever be able to leave the benzo..

@madelynhernandez7453 10 ай бұрын

I didnt pay I did it to my self for free. I had reinstate.

@jbs9012 10 ай бұрын

Resources are few and far between. And mostly very expensive. Thinking about the new Dr. Joseph program in UTAH. Wondering if anyone has worked with him?

@BarryMann 9 ай бұрын

Beware of negative stuff on the internet. I tried tapering for 9 months and failed, so I am now in rehab from 45 mg valium. Paws is 15%. How you get on in rehab determines your chances of PAWS.

@MrMushkin85 10 ай бұрын

I did something similar to this 😢

@TruthTeller-ez7ev 2 ай бұрын

Right these rehabs are just a rip off.

@ellaMel4632 3 ай бұрын

Is detox with phenobarbital for few weeks and Gabapentin dangerous, I need to get off of Ativan after 8 months, it gives me inflammation and bad side effects, help ?