World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 2
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🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the MIA podcast to join in the many events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, July 11, 2019.
2019 represents the fourth annual awareness day and each year it's held on July 11 which is a significant date because it is the birthday of Professor Heather Ashton. Dr. Ashton is a world-leading expert in benzodiazepines and wrote the highly regarded Ashton Manual which aims to aid clinicians and patients in coming off benzodazepine drugs safely. She also spent many years personally assisting and supporting those who had experienced protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal.
Around the world there are many activities and events taking place as part of W-BAD, so to follow along with events and to get involved yourself, head over to World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day's Facebook page and look out for the hashtag #WorldBenzoDay on social media.
In our two-part podcast, we hear from W-BAD volunteer and Project Manager for W-BAD Rocks of Kindness, Janelle. We also chat with physician and Director of the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition Christy Huff MD. Finally, in part two, we hear from Stephen Wright MD, addiction specialist and medical consultant to the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices.
Rockin' Against Benzos (closed Facebook group)
A Rockin' Creative Outlet That's Raising Benzodiazepine Awareness
#WBADROCKS – 1 Month, 5 Things We've Learned
W-BAD Rocks on Twitter and Instagram: @wbadrocks
On social media, look for the hashtag #WBADROCKS
A Xanax Prescription That Should Have Been Rejected
10 Tips To Help Patients Through Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
Dr. Huff's Blogs and Media Appearances (Scroll down below her bio and click on logos)
BIC on Facebook @bzinfocoalition
BIC on Twitter @BZInfoCoalition
The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices
Benzodiazepine Related Problems: It's Almost Never Addiction
Benzodiazepines and Z Drugs for Pain Patients: The Problem of Protracted Withdrawal Symptoms (PWS)
How Chronic Administration of Benzodiazepines Leads to Unexplained Chronic Illnesses: A Hypothesis
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello, this is James, and welcome to part two of our special podcast episode devoted to |
| 0:19.9 | World Benzidazapine Awareness Day 11th of July |
| 0:23.1 | 2019. In part one of the podcast, we chatted with W Bad Volunteer and W Bad Rocks of Kindness |
| 0:30.6 | Project Manager Janelle. We also spoke with physician and director of the Benzidiazepine |
| 0:36.0 | Information Coalition, Dr. Christy Huff. |
| 0:38.6 | And just before we get going, if you'd like to get involved and follow along with awareness |
| 0:43.0 | events occurring all day to day, then head over to World Benzidazapine Awareness Day's Facebook |
| 0:48.0 | page, Facebook.com forward slash World Benzo Day, or you can find them on Twitter at WorldBenzodea. |
| 0:56.1 | Okay, and so our next interview is with Stephen Wright, MD. |
| 1:00.6 | Dr. Wright is a residency trained family physician with a 36-year clinical career. |
| 1:06.7 | Active in addiction medicine and medical pain management. |
| 1:10.5 | He focuses on issues related to controlled substances, addiction and pain management through consulting, speaking, advocacy, policy development and education. |
| 1:20.5 | His clinical interests include the neurophysiology and treatment of pain and addiction, non-opioid analgesia, opioids, benzodiazepines, |
| 1:30.1 | cannabis in medical and non-medical use, adverse consequences, best practices and systems of care. |
| 1:36.7 | Dr. Wright is the medical consultant for the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices. |
| 1:42.8 | Dr. Wright, welcome. Thank you so much for joining me for the Mad at best practices. Dr. Wright, welcome. |
| 1:47.5 | Thank you so much for joining me for the Mad at America podcast. |
| 1:54.2 | And to begin with, I'd kind of like to ask a little bit about you and, you know, how you got into medicine. |
| 1:55.6 | And in particular, what led you towards addiction medicine as a speciality? |
| 2:04.4 | Sure. So I started out in family medicine in the United States. It's a process that involves a residency program, which I completed in |
| 2:10.8 | 1982 way back in the day. And I started doing family medicine. I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a group came down, wanted to put in an addiction treatment center. |
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