Family matters

Side effects of sleeping pills

Dear WDDTY

I felt personally involved after reading Vol 5 no 2 (Drug Secrecy), as for 27 years of my life I was on tranquillizers and sleeping pills, and during that time no doctor warned me of the drugs I was taking. At 18 I was anxious and sleepless, and went from Librium, Valium, Mogadon, Halcion, Prothiaden, Haloperidol, Largactil, to name but a few, over the years. I did not have the emotional strength to break the addiction until two years ago, when I was studying homeopathy and had enough support to come off with with the aid of homeopathic remedies. I am keen now to help people reclaim their emotional health, as I have done. Carol Ross, homeopath, Shrewsbury.....

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