Question: I have suffered from addiction most of my life on and off for over 55 years - I am 66 now but still active and clean (except slow withdrawal of benzodiazepines) I have not had a narcotic or alcohol or other drugs for over 4 years. The slow taper is hell at each small long lasting between some time I have reduced my doses that where medically prescribed by over 80% but these last 2 have been hell and the fast and simple question for do you see and/or is there research out there that says that a particular individual my just need to stay on a certain dose for long term as long as they are monitored by a Professional Medically Trained Psychiatrist and monitored by the Pharmacist Reporting System and blood work, in other words can Anxiety be treaded by medication (just as other disorders where other forms of treatment have not worked) a low does over long term. Why should I have to suffer because the general hysteria (justifiable so) over drugs and addiction is so rampant and there has not been an alternative medication that has helped and I have tried most all of them. Thank you and any direction or thoughts of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. Even think of the patient who has not been an addict but have been on these medications for some time. Thank you in advance and I know this is a loaded question and you would need to know a whole lot more about me and medically my history but anything would be great, thank you, XXXXXXX - XXXXXXX