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BEAT THE BENZOS CAMPAIGN 2000
For more information contact:
Barry Haslam on 01457-876355

• Beat the Benzos Campaign 2002-2004: Launched at House of Commons, November 18, 2002.

• One Million plus UK citizens are taking Benzodiazepine prescriptions and are chronically disabled as a result of involuntary dependence.

• Benzodiazepines are being overly prescribed despite a volume of critical literature and 1000s of personal stories of tranquilliser addiction.

• In 1988, Government guidelines recommended a maximum use of two to four weeks, but long term prescriptions are still being issued mostly as repeats.

• MP Phil Woolas' Letter to the Medicines Control Agency, February 26, 2002

• Press Release

• Summing Up, Phil Woolas MP

• Benzodiazepines: The Still Unfinished Story, Professor C Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP

• Benzodiazepines: A Risk Factor in Sudden Infant Death? Susan Bibby

• Benzodiazepines - Time for Action and Accountability! Joan Gadsby

• Professor David Cohen

• Neurobiological & Structural Changes in Benzodiazepine Users, Professor Stefan Borg

• Benzodiazepines and Babies, Dr James Robertson

• Withdrawal Treatment and Support, Ian Singleton, Bristol & District Tranquilliser Project

• A Carer's Perspective, Maureen Barraclough

• Audience Comment

• Beat the Benzos Conference Report by Gwenda Cannard, TRANX Inc, Australia

PRESS

• Keeping an open mind, The Guardian, November 22, 2000

• Problems of 'benzo babies' to be probed, Oldham Chronicle, November 22, 2000

• Tranquillisers 'more lethal than heroin', The Observer, Sunday, November 5, 2000

• Man's life 'blighted by pills', York Evening Press, 30 October 2000.

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MAIN CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES

1. To hold public hearings and inquiries into medically induced tranquilliser addiction.

2. To lobby the Government to reclassify benzodiazepines as a Class A drug like heroin, cocaine and methadone.

3. To secure financial compensation for personal injury through tranquilliser addiction.

4. To secure financial support for patient withdrawal groups and residential treatment programs.

5. To secure funding for research into long term damage caused by benzodiazepines.

6. To urge the re-education for medical doctors.

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Beat The Benzos Campaign 2002-2005

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