In 1966, Joan Gadsby's four-year-old son died of a brain tumour. In response, her trusted family physician prescribed a 'chemical cocktail' of tranquilisers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants -- an act that initiated Gadsby's slow descent into an abyss of unrecognised addiction. Gadsby has emerged from her addiction to become a tireless advocate for systematic change and accountability in the area of prescribed sedative/hypnotic drugs. She has interviewed thousands -- from consumers to doctors to pharmaceutical representatives and government officials as she conducted extensive international research -- in her quest to expose the shocking truth of the depth and breadth of addiction by prescription which affects hundreds of thousands of men and women worldwide.