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Long-term use of anti-anxiety drugs continues in BC despite known health risks, UBC, May 20, 2010.
Letter to President Barack Obama, Joan E. Gadsby, May 2, 2009.
A DVD of Professor C. Heather Ashton's lecture on April 4, 2006, Vancouver B.C. is now available. For more details and ordering information please visit this web site.
Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group, British Columbia.
British Columbia overdoses on tranquillizers, CanWest News, February 7, 2005.
Accro aux benzos, Châtelaine Magazine, Québec, April 2004: Saviez-vous que des médicaments comme l'Ativan, le Valium ou le Serax pourraient vous rendre dépendante ?
Manufacturing Addiction: The Overprescription of Benzodiazepines and Sleeping Pills to Women in Canada, Janet Currie, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, July 2003 (PDF file).
Why Are Canadians Taking So Many Prescription Drugs? (Transcript), CBC Radio's Commentary, January 8, 2003. Listen to the Commentary (Requires RealPlayer).
Benzodiazepine Addiction - An Open Letter by Julie Keyser, Canada.
Joan E. Gadsby's Main Page. All information and articles can now be accessed from Joan's Main Page.
The Effects of Tranquillization: Benzodiazepine Use in Canada, Health Canada Publication, 1982.
IMPORTANT: Benzodiazepines: Responsible Prescribing & Informed Use, Joan E. Gadsby, October 9, 2001 (Revised). Healthcare: Recommended Resolution to Canadian Government.
Addiction by Prescription, Victoria Times Colonist, February 1, 2002.
Addicted by Sonya Felix, Canadian Healthcare Manager, December 2001.
Natives awash in addictive sedatives, Ann Rees, The Vancouver Province, December 31, 2001.
Correspondence with Health Minister Allan Rock, September 2001.
Letter to the Honourable Allan Rock from the Women's Addiction Foundation and the Benzodiazepine Awareness Network, July 30, 2001.
Common questions about benzodiazepine risks, Andrea Gordon, Journal of Addiction and Mental Health, March/April 2001.
The Christine Nichols Story. A former soldier's fight against the military, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 14 February, 2001.
Health Canada Puts Benzos on The Controlled Substances List, June 22, 2000.
Triazolam Dispensing Guidelines, College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 29 January 1999.
Canadian Parliamentary Debate on Benzodiazepines, Evidence, April 22, 1997.
Dr Ray Baker's Article on Addiction: Benzodiazepines in Particular.
Women and Benzodiazepines, The Women's Addiction Foundation.
Les Benzodiazépines: Comment agissent-elles et comment s'en sevrer ? Professor C Heather Ashton DM, FRCP, 2002.
Les Benzodiazépines: Plus dangereuses qu'on ne le pense, The Women's Addiction Foundation.
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