World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day (W-BAD) is observed annually on July 11th.

Benzodiazepine Information Coalition (BIC) is a non-profit organization that strives to educate about the potential adverse effects of benzodiazepines taken as prescribed.

Periscope Foundation is a non-profit organization that funded the making and continues the outreach of Medicating Normal.

Schedule:

10 am PST/ 1 pm EST: Screening via Zoom (link will be sent a day prior to the event)

11:15 am PST / 2:15 pm EST: Community Discussion via Zoom

To access the zoom livestream and the discussion afterwards, you must locate your "ticket," via the email you receive from Eventbrite after RSVP'ing, OR by clicking on the "online event page" in Eventbrite. You will be sent a reminder email with the information again, a day before the event from Eventbrite.

Community Discussion Panelists:

Dr. James M. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC, former Director – Therapeutics Initiative, Emeritus Professor – Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of British Columbia

Dr. Mark Horowitz, PhD, psychiatry trainee, academic, patient, interest in de-prescribing

Wendy Ractliffe, filmmaker

Lynn Cunningham, filmmaker

Nicole Lamberson, physician assistant, BIC board member and W-BAD volunteer

Angela Peacock, MSW, military veteran, subject in the film, BIC board member and W-BAD volunteer

Cost: $10/ticket — $2 of each ticket will be given to Benzodiazepine Information Coalition for their continued work "educating about the potential adverse effects of benzodiazepines taken as prescribed." The remaining funds will go to Periscope Foundation to support Medicating Normal's outreach efforts, community screenings, and global distribution OR select the "DONATION" ticket with the amount of your choice (above $10) and your donation will be split 80-20% between Periscope Foundation and BIC respectively.

Donations in honor of World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day — If after seeing the film you feel compelled to give more to either organization, thank you! Both are 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations and your donations are tax deductible. Please visit our websites to donate: https://medicatingnormal.com/donate/ OR https://www.benzoinfo.com/donate/

By RSVP'ing for this event, you will be added to Medicating Normal's mailing list. You can opt out at any time after the event has concluded.

Disclaimer: By purchasing a ticket, you agree NOT TO share, photograph, record, upload, download or otherwise distribute the film as doing so would put the film’s global distribution in jeopardy. All content in the film is the copyrighted property of Periscope Foundation.

Review:

"Medicating Normal dares to challenge prevailing myths about how psychotropic medications work, or fail to, in our ongoing struggle to treat mental illness. It promises to spark a long-overdue national conversation on the growing problem of overprescribing.” - Anna Lembke M.D., psychiatrist, faculty Stanford University Medical School.

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Benzodiazepine Information Coalition presents Medicating Normal for W-BAD!