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01968aam a22002653i 4500 001 78B6CB3CBB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 220824s2022 enk g 000|0|eng d 020 $a 0578394332 020 $a 9780578394336 040 $a StDuBDS $b eng $c StDuBDS $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Bracken, Ann C, $e author. 245 10 $a Crash : $b a memoir of overmedication and recovery / $c Ann C Bracken. 264 1 $a [Place of publication not identified] : $b Charing Cross Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 229 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery is the story of Helen Dempsey and her daughter Ann who both fall victim to the same regimen of overmedication at the hands of the mental health system. Helen struggles with intractable depression and initially turns to self-medication with alcohol, but finds herself unable to recover despite numerous drugs, hospitalizations, and electroconvulsive therapy. Ann vows to build a different life for herself, but eventually descends into the pain of a mysterious migraine and intractable darkness lasting for many years. Severely overmedicated with opioids and psychiatric drugs, Ann crashes her car twice. Because traditional medical treatments have failed her, she challenges her doctors' advice and discovers ways to heal the source of her physical and emotional pain without drugs. The question of why her mother never got well continues to haunt her long after her mother's death until she finds the missing puzzle pieces she'd searched for all her life stashed in a dusty box in her sister's attic. 650 0 $a Chronic pain patients $v Biography. 650 0 $a Depressed persons $v Biography. 650 0 $a Drug addicts $v Biography. 650 0 $a Medication abuse $v Biography. 650 0 $a Poets, American. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125010806.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=78B6CB3CBB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search