{"id":65496,"date":"2023-09-12T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/id-59366254\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:38:07","slug":"id-59366254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/id-59366254\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond (ePUB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this \u201cpage-turner memoir chronicling a woman\u2019s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence\u2014and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use\u2014that chills to the bone\u201d ( Nylon ).<\/p>\n<p>As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines\u2014a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan\u2014and increases her dosage regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Following her doctor\u2019s orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her doctor\u2014like so many others\u2014has over-prescribed the medication and quitting cold turkey could lead to psychosis or fatal seizures. Benzodiazepine addiction is not well studied, and few experts know how to help Melissa as she begins the months-long process of tapering off the pills without suffering debilitating, potentially deadly consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Each page thrums with the heartbeat of Melissa\u2019s struggle\u2014how many hours has she slept? How many weeks old are her babies? How many milligrams has she taken? Her propulsive writing crescendos to a fever pitch as she fights for her health and her ability to care for her children. \u201cPropulsive, poetic\u201d ( Shelf Awareness ), and immersive, this \u201cvivid chronicle of suffering\u201d ( Kirkus Reviews ) and redemption shines a light on the prescription benzodiazepine epidemic as it reaches a crisis point in this country.. First published June 14, 2022. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 288. #blood-orange-night-ebook #blood-orange-night-epub #read #download<\/p>\n<p>User Rating: 4.01 (based on 2029 ratings)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download EPUB Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc1 File details: <em>blood-orange-night.epub<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/redirect\/id-59366254\" class=\"mi-boton\">DOWNLOAD<\/a> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this \u201cpage-turner memoir chronicling a woman\u2019s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence\u2014and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use\u2014that chills to the bone\u201d ( Nylon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"blocksy_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}