Benzodiazepine Information Coalition Blog

The documentary Medicating Normal presents a discussion with our director, Dr. Christy Huff, along with Nicole Lamberson, PA, Dr. Mark Horowitz and Dr. Peter Gordon about their experiences as a medical provider harmed by psychiatric medication. Both Dr. Huff and...

Our very own Dr. Jim Wright and Nicole Lamberson, PA speak with Medicating Normal filmmaker Lynn Cunningham and film subject Angela Peacock about medication safety at a movie screening for the Foreign Policy Association. Dr. Jim Wright is a clinical pharmacologist w...

Nicole Lamberson, PA, recently interviewed Chris Paige, LCSW for the YouTube channel documentary Medicating Normal. Medicating Normal is a documentary film about profit driven medicine. Both Nicole and Chris survived chronic benzodiazepine-cessation induced akathisia,...

Giving Tuesday is back, and as we do each year, Benzodiazepine Information Coalition is asking our community for the support we need to continue the work we do. What’s different? Four years after our founding, I am more confident than ever about the future of benzodiazepine awareness.

While the US and the world is convulsed by COVID-19, a dramatic admission has been made by the US Food and Drugs Administration about dangerous benzodiazepine drugs, acknowledging patients have suffered severe withdrawal side effects that have “lasted from weeks to...

In 2017, Benzodiazepine Information Coalition initiated a campaign reporting patient harm to the FDA through their MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting System. Many of the Facebook groups, BenzoBuddies and World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day joined in. We shared our...

It’s been a year since I took my last dose of a benzodiazepine. I had shared publicly about my journey off benzodiazepines during my taper (see here and here), and since many have asked me lately how I’m doing, it’s time for an update. In this article, I’ll be...