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...

Several members of our board will give  testimony to the Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery for Massachusetts Benzodiazepine Bills S.1260 and H.2117: An Act relative to benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics.

The summit features presenters: Prof. Joanna Moncrieff William F. Pettit, Jr, M.D. Adele Framer Jamie Smart James Moore Christy Huff, M.D. Dr. Anne Guy Terry Rubenstein Dr. Elizabeth Corcoran Dr. Amy Johnson Dr. Bryan McElroy Dr. Pratima Singh Plus a screening of the documentary Medicating Normal Everyone is invited worldwide!

Please join the Colorado Consortium’s Benzodiazepine Action Work Group for our free CME lunch and learn webinar series. Webinar topics include alternative treatments to BZDs, consequences of BZD prescribed use, BZD Induced Neurologic Dysfunction (BIND), and tapering/deprescribing. Prescribers who attend all 4 webinars will be eligible to be listed as a “Benzodiazepine Cooperative Prescriber” in...