the remaining dilemma was how to continue treating dominexs study victims.there was little that could be done for patients in sedative withdrawal.their choices were clearly to go back on the medication or to ride out the withdrawal process.this was a process that donovan was sure many of them would not choose to go through.the only other alternative was now a moot point.if the volunteers had not stopped their medication abruptly , they could have been slowly weaned off the stuff and lessened the intensity of their withdrawal.but by the time they had come to him it was no longer a possibility.besides , the whole point of this little exercise had been to prove that a patient could easily stop taking valipene anytime without any problems.they had been blind idiots to attempt such a venture without any real back up plan in place.donovan could have predicted this outcome long before they had ever started this futile experiment .