Angela Peacock - Medicating Normal
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
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🗓️ 5 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week on MIA Radio we present a special episode of the podcast in advance of the events being held to mark World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, July 11, 2020.
The reason we are sharing this interview early is to help draw attention to a special screening of the film Medicating Normal which will be shown on World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day itself. Following this special screening of the film, there will be an online panel discussion featuring people with lived experience of taking and coming off benzodiazepines. If you haven't yet seen the film, this screening is not to be missed. The film will be shown at 1 pm EST on July 11 and you can get tickets here.
The film is presented by the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, a non-profit organization that strives to educate about the potential adverse effects of benzodiazepines taken as prescribed and the Periscope Foundation which is a non-profit organization that funded the making and continues the outreach of Medicating Normal.
For our interview this week I am delighted to get the chance to chat with Angela Peacock who appears in the film and will be a panel member for the online discussion.
Angie served in the US Army from 1998-2004 and was medically retired after one tour in Iraq. She was medicated for post-traumatic stress since that time, going on and off benzodiazepines several times under a doctor's care until coming off for the final time in January 2016.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology and graduated in May 2019 from Washington University in St. Louis- Brown School of Social work with a Masters in social work. As a 2019 Veterans of Foreign Wars-Student Veterans of America, Legislative Policy Fellow, she is advocating for change in Benzo policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is embarking on a community outreach effort to improve medication and health literacy among military veterans and their family members.
Angie chats about her experiences of being prescribed benzodiazepines, her journey off multiple medications, her continuing work in veterans advocacy and her thoughts about the film Medicating Normal.
Medicating Normal special screening and panel discussion
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello, this is James and welcome to the Madden America podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | And this week we are sharing a special interview in advance of World Benzodiazepine Awareness |
| 0:23.5 | Day, July 11th, 2020. And the reason we're sharing this interview early is to help draw attention |
| 0:30.0 | to a special screening of the film Medicating Normal, which will be shown on World Benzodiazepine |
| 0:35.8 | Awareness Day. And following this special screening, there will be an online panel discussion |
| 0:40.6 | featuring people with lived experience of taking and coming off benzodiazepines. |
| 0:45.9 | If you haven't yet seen the film, this screening is not to be missed. |
| 0:50.5 | The film is presented by the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, |
| 0:53.9 | a non-profit organisation that |
| 0:56.2 | strives to educate about the potential adverse effects of benzodiazepines taken as prescribed, |
| 1:01.9 | and also the Periscope Foundation, which is a non-profit organisation that funded the making |
| 1:07.4 | and continues the outreach of medicating normal. |
| 1:14.4 | The film will be shown at 1pm EST on July 11th. |
| 1:19.3 | And to find out more about this special screening, you can visit the W-Bad website, which is w-bad-org. |
| 1:22.5 | So on to our interview, and I'm delighted to get the chance to chat with Angela Peacock, |
| 1:27.2 | who appears in the film and will be a panel member for the panel discussion. |
| 1:32.3 | Angie served in the US Army from 1998 to 2004 and was medically retired after one tour in Iraq. |
| 1:40.3 | She was medicated for post-traumatic stress since that time, going on and off benzodiazepine several times under a doctor's care, until coming off for the final time in January 2016. |
| 1:52.4 | She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and graduated in May 2019 from Washington University in St. Louis Brown School of Social Work with a Masters in Social Work. |
| 2:03.9 | As a 2019 Veterans of Foreign War student Veterans of America Legislative Policy Fellow, |
| 2:10.3 | she is advocating for change in Benzo Policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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