#31: Melissa Bond 🇺🇸, author of "Blood Orange Night"
Benzotired15 Nov 2023

#31: Melissa Bond 🇺🇸, author of "Blood Orange Night"

November 1st, 2023 In this episode: Melissa Bond, a narrative journalist, poet and matriarch to Salt Lake City’s Slam Scene. The Salt Lake Tribune and the New York Post have both done features on Bond's book Blood Orange Night, her memoir about becoming dependent upon and then withdrawing from Benzodiazepines. Blood Orange Night was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2022 and was selected by the New York Times as one of the best audiobooks of 2022. Bond has been featured on PBS Story in the Public Square, Radio West, the podcasts Risk!, Endeavors, Psychology Unplugged, The New York Times Podcast, RadioWest and Mom’s Don’t Have Time to Read Books. When Melissa developed pathological insomnia, she was prescribed Ambien (Zolpidem) and later a staggering amount of Ativan (Lorazepam). Melissa's interview on the Benzodiazepine Awareness Podcast (July 2022): https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wlnRMoHDR6ePsrEDW9qQI?si=JMyYTT-MQmiyvT4V-20bjw Learn more at MelissaABond.com.

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