Benzodiazepine Information Coalition Blog
Join Our Media Accuracy Team!
We are seeking volunteers to join our newly-established Media Accuracy Team (MAT)! The media should be held responsible for portraying medical conditions accurately. When they fail to do so around benzodiazepines, our MAT seeks to correct any inaccuracies with the...
Financial Aid Resources and Disability Information For Benzodiazepine-Harmed Patients
Many of us struggle with serious poverty caused by benzodiazepine harm. Disabled and unable to work, we still must find avenues to keep ourselves from homelessness and starvation. Many of us are too sick to spend a lot of time finding these resources, so I have compiled a list of some of the options in the United States that can potentially provide assistance.
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition’s Fall 2019 Update
OUR ACTIVISM Our latest events, media outreach and blogs: This Is Life With Lisa Ling aired The Benzo Crisis on CNN. Krissy Tyrrell appears in the episode sharing her story of benzodiazepine harm. Brooke Monk worked hard with the production company to ensure the...
Yes, Benzos Help Some: That Doesn’t Justify Ignoring Patient Safety
“Benzodiazepines help some people.” This common response to our message of patient harm prevention is echoed throughout our online platforms. In some ways, who can blame these commenters? The opioid epidemic, to which the media frequently and errantly compares...
Benzo-Induced Harm: The Nameless Problem
I can’t believe I have to say this, but brain and neurological injuries are not addictions. One way that benzodiazepine-damaged patients are silenced is being forced to defend themselves against the addiction narrative that is attributed to them every time they share...
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition’s Summer 2019 Update
OUR COALITION TURNS THREE I’m happy to announce that Benzodiazepine Information Coalition turned three on August 3, 2019. So much has changed since 2016 that it's difficult for me to pinpoint exactly when the changes happened. What I can say is that the future of the...
BIC Supports FDA’s Benzodiazepine Drug Abuse, Addiction and Dependence Language Proposal
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition recently responded to the FDA’s Drug Abuse and Dependence Section of Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products. This document proposed by the FDA seeks to distinguish the difference between addiction, drug...
Elderly Former NASA Analyst’s Protracted Lorazepam Injury
Although Arnold Knutsen and I “met” virtually five years ago, we only first spoke on the phone recently when he called to share his story. He’s the eldest member of the online benzodiazepine support group we cohabitate. His posts in the group always reeked of...
Survey About Your Experience With Taking Benzodiazepines (or Z-Drugs)
What will participation involve? This project involves a series of online surveys to be completed over a six-month period. They will involve questions about your demographics, benzodiazepine use and experiences with them, as well as a few questions relating to your...
The Tip of the Iatrogenic Benzodiazepine Iceberg
Life experience gives one an intimate appreciation for the meaning behind the saying “just the tip of the iceberg.” Everyone’s encountered something that turned out to be much larger and more complex than was initially understood. In my experience, medicine has yet to...
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