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This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the MIA podcast to join in the many events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, July 11, 2019.
2019 represents the fourth annual awareness day and each year it’s held on July 11 which is a significant date because it is the birthday of Professor Heather Ashton. Dr. Ashton is a world-leading expert in benzodiazepines and wrote the highly regarded Ashton Manual which aims to aid clinicians and patients in coming off benzodazepine drugs safely. She also spent many years personally assisting and supporting those who had experienced protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal.
Around the world there are many activities and events taking place as part of W-BAD, so to follow along with events and to get involved yourself, head over to World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day’s Facebook page and look out for the hashtag #WorldBenzoDay on social media.
In our two-part podcast, we hear from W-BAD volunteer and Project Manager for W-BAD Rocks of Kindness, Janelle. We also chat with physician and Director of the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition Christy Huff MD. Finally, in part two, we hear from Stephen Wright MD, addiction specialist and medical consultant to the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices.
W-BAD Rocks on Facebook
Rockin’ Against Benzos (closed Facebook group)
A Rockin’ Creative Outlet That’s Raising Benzodiazepine Awareness
#WBADROCKS – 1 Month, 5 Things We’ve Learned
W-BAD Rocks on Twitter and Instagram: @wbadrocks
On social media, look for the hashtag #WBADROCKS
A Xanax Prescription That Should Have Been Rejected
10 Tips To Help Patients Through Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
Follow Dr. Huff on Twitter
Dr. Huff’s Blogs and Media Appearances (Scroll down below her bio and click on logos)
BIC on Facebook @bzinfocoalition
BIC on Twitter @BZInfoCoalition
The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices
Benzodiazepine Related Problems: It’s Almost Never Addiction
Benzodiazepines and Z Drugs for Pain Patients: The Problem of Protracted Withdrawal Symptoms (PWS)
How Chronic Administration of Benzodiazepines Leads to Unexplained Chronic Illnesses: A Hypothesis
Jim van Os and Peter Groot - When Assessing Antidepressant Withdrawal Methods, RCTs Fall Short
Ursula Read - Rights Based Global Mental Health and Social Exclusion
Michael Ungar - Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience
Patricia Rush - Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering
Marcela Ot'alora - MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Humility
Michelle Funk - WHO and the Sea Change in Mental Health
Ilana Mountian - Discourse, Drug Use, and Psychiatry
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Post Withdrawal Experiences
Hannah Pickard - Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities
Katrina Michelle - Psychedelics, Transformative Experiences and Healing
Hannah Zeavin - Questioning the Moral Panic Around Teletherapy
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Exploring the Science
Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition and Mental Health
Anne Guy - How Therapists Can Help With Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Peter Sterling - What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life?
Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology
Sherry Julo, Ed White and John Read – Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Donzaleigh Abernathy - Creative Maladjustment
Helen Spandler - Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives
Jill Nickens - The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research
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