Watch a screening of the documentary Medicating Normal. After the documentary, attend a community discussion panel focused on withdrawal harms. The panel includes: Dr. James M. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC, former Director – Therapeutics Initiative, Emeritus Professor – Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia, BIC board member Dr. Mark Horowitz, PhD, psychiatry trainee, academic,...
Dr. Michael Bohan speaks with Nicole Lamberson, PA for Medicating Normal. Both Dr. Bohan and Nicole serve on our medical board. The interview will focus on Dr. Bohan’s experiences tapering physically dependent patients off of benzodiazepines.
Drs Christy Huff and Sandra Steingard will present on benzodiazepines at West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders WCSAD 2020.
Dr. Christy Huff, Dr. Stephen Wright and Dr. Anna Lembke will present Benzodiazepines: A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight at the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s 2020 Annual Meeting. Their talk focuses on benzodiazepine risks, the importance of safe tapering, The Ashton Manual, the differences between addiction and physical dependence, along with Dr. Huff’s story of prescribed benzodiazepine...
This panel is focused on the experiences of four medical providers who were also patients and were harmed by prescribed psychiatric medication. Panelists: Christy Huff, MD, is a cardiologist residing in the U.S. and director of Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, a nonprofit that educates about the adverse effects of prescribed benzodiazepines. Dr. Huff experienced benzodiazepine adverse...
Lunch and Learn Safe Prescribing Protocols of Benzodiazepines: Lessons Learned from the Opioid Crisis, presented by Drs. Alexis Ritvo and Christy Huff. The entire series, planned by the Provider Education Work Group, offering continuing medical education (CME) credit.
Mad in America, the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and A Disorder 4 Everyone present a series of live, online town hall discussions focussing on issues related to psychiatric drug withdrawal. For the third discussion, they examin protracted problems that can arise after psychiatric drug withdrawal. Sometimes referred to as...
Duke University’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, in cooperation with the FDA, holds a public workshop Safe Use of Benzodiazepines: Clinical, Regulatory, and Public Health Perspectives on July 12 and 13. Our director, Dr. Christy Huff, will speak at the workshop.
Dr. Christy Huff presents Safe Prescribing Protocols of Benzodiazepines: Lessons Learned from the Opioid Crisis alongside Dr. Alexis Ritvo.
The session features presenters: Nicole Lamberson, PA, of Benzodiazepine Information Coalition’s Medical Advisory Board John Staight, patient advocate Alexis Ritvo, MD, co-chair of Benzodiazepine Action Work Group D.E. Foster, co-chair of Benzodiazepine Action Work Group, Benzo Free Podcast, Easing Anxiety Moderator: Jamie Feld, MPH There is a growing crisis of patient harm from prescribed benzodiazepines, a...
