Melissa Bond

Dr. Amy de la Garza, a family and addiction medicine physician blending functional care and ketamine‑assisted approaches. Melissa Bond, a journalist and poet who wrote Blood Orange Night about benzodiazepine dependence. They discuss how benzodiazepines reshape the nervous system, why withdrawal can be prolonged and destabilizing, challenges of long tapers, and the emerging use and cautions of low‑dose ketamine as a supporting tool.