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• Please note that the newspaper articles about benzodiazepines have now moved to the Media Archive. Click here for the main benzodiazepine links page.
• Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use: cost-effectiveness, Christine Godfrey, Nick Heather, Alison Bowie, Jennifer Brodie, Steve Parrott, Heather Ashton & Brian McAvoy, August 2008 (PDF).
• Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use: outcome of intervention, Nick Heather, Alison Bowie, Heather Ashton, Brian McAvoy, Ian Spencer, Jennifer Brodie, David Giddings, April 2004 (PDF).
• Benzo Withdrawal Realities, Colin Downes-Grainger, July 23, 2008.
• State Benefits, Tranquillisers and the DWP, Colin Downes-Grainger, July 22, 2008.
• Tranquilliser Dissonance, Colin Downes-Grainger, July 9, 2008.
• The Lock on Pandora's Box, BBC Watch Politics Show West: Tranquillisers, A Critique, Colin Downes-Grainger, June 24, 2008.
• Tranquilliser Questions - Avoiding Answers (PDF), Colin Downes-Grainger, A>MAD, June 2, 2008.
• APPG for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction, Newsletter 2, March 25, 2008.
• APPG Manifesto on Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction, February 12, 2008.
• APPG for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction, Newsletter 1, January 22, 2008.
• Letter from Chris Davies MEP to Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health, November 8, 2007.
• Letter from Barry Haslam to Phil Woolas MP, October 10, 2007.
• Government Prescription Drug Addiction Inquiry. Click link for details.
• Beat The Benzos Official Website.
• Petition: Help for medically induced addicts of benzodiazepines. To provide facilities to help the 1.5 million in the UK addicted to benzodiazepines and Z drugs come off these prescription drugs safely, and to help people regain their mental and physical health, and to educate GPs and psychiatrists that these drugs should be prescribed for no longer than 4 weeks.
• The role of the pharmaceutical companies in the treatment of mental ill health, Professor C Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP, Durham, May 18, 2007.
• The Clinicopharmacotherapeutics of Benzodiazepine and Z Drug Dose Tapering Using Diazepam, Dr JG McConnell BSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPEd, May 6th, 2007.
• Legal Drug Addiction Advertisement, Oldham Chronicle, February 26, 2007. (PDF). Oldham Chronicle, February 26, 2007 (PDF).
• Professor C H Ashton's Reply to Health Minister Rosie Winterton, January 9, 2007.
• The First Duty of the State is the Protection of Citizens? (PDF), Colin Downes-Grainger, A>MAD, January 2007.
• Benzodiazepines: Problems & ? Solutions, Professor C H Ashton, All-Party Action Group on Tranquilliser Addiction, House of Commons, London November 7, 2006.
• Inadequate Services for Benzodiazepine Users, ITV News Clip, November 7, 2006.
• End the Addiction Advertisement, published in The Independent on October 27, 2006. (opens in new window).
• Valium became my illness, Daily Express, April 11, 2006 (PDF).
• An Open Letter on the Human Tragedy of Benzodiazepines in the UK (PDF), Colin Downes-Grainger, A>MAD, January 2006.
• Benzodiazepines: Co-operation Not Confrontation. Website.
• Benzodiazepines: Co-operation not Confrontation, August 2005.
• Beat the Benzos Conference DVD / Video, Avant Hotel, Oldham, April 23, 2004. Now available!
• Benzodiazepines: How they Work & How to Withdraw (The Ashton Manual), 2002. Now available online.
• Beat the Benzos Index Page · 2000 Campaign · 2002-2005 Campaign
• The Benzodiazepines, Health Select Committee Submission, Michael Behan, August 30, 2004.
• A Call for EU Guidelines on the Prescribing of Benzodiazepines, Barry Haslam, February, 2004.
• Benzodiazepines warning, Chief Medical Officer's Update 37, Patient Safety, Department of Health, January 2004.
• Health Minister Rosie Winterton's letter to John Grogan MP, January 11, 2004 · Reply by Professor C H Ashton, January 30, 2004 · Reply by Pam Armstrong (CITA), February 17, 2004.
• Making sense of minor tranquillisers, Mind (National Association for Mental Health), 2003. Also available as a PDF file.
• The Benzodiazepines, Home Office Submission, Michael Behan, July 26, 2003.
• Request to Review the Current Status of the Benzodiazepines, Home Office Submission, Susan Bibby (Benzact), July 7, 2003.
• Benzodiazepines: A Hidden Epidemic, May 2003 by Susan Bibby of Benzact.
• In Pills We Trust, Discovery Channel, December 4-18, 2002.
• Beat the Benzos Campaign 2002: Launched at House of Commons, November 18, 2002.
• Memorandum submitted by Barry Haslam, United Kingdom Parliament: Home Affairs - Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix 5, November 2001, prepared 22 May 2002.
• Benzodiazepines, House of Commons, Hansard Debates, 4 December 2001.
• Benzodiazepines, House of Commons, Hansard Debates, 7 December 1999.
• Coming off anti-depressants and tranquillisers, UK Channel 4 TV.
• Role for pharmacists in reducing the problem of benzodiazepine addiction, The Pharmaceutical Journal, May 19, 2001.
• The Tranquilliser Trap, Panorama, BBC1, 10.20pm BST, Sunday 13 May, 2001. Press Reports & Links.
• Benzodiazepines: BBC Radio 4 Face The Facts, March 16, 1999. Transcript.
• Benzodiazepines and your patients: a management programme, Roche Products Ltd, ca. 1990.
• Benzodiazepines: The Management of Dependence and Withdrawal, UK Department of Health, 1999.
• Benzodiazepines, Dependence & Withdrawal Symptoms, Committee on Safety of Medicines, January 1988.
• Avoid benzodiazepines in pregnancy and lactation, 1997 MCA/CSM Reminder.
• Hypnotics and anxiolytics, BNF (British National Formulary).
• Anxiety and Insomnia, UK Mental Health Foundation Publication, 1994.
• Helping You Cope, A Guide to Tranquillisers and Sleeping Tablets, The Mental Health Foundation, 1994. See also: Medication for Mental Health Problems.
• Benzodiazepines: Department of Health PILS Leaflet L20.
• Benzodiazepine Audit Protocol, Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care: University of Leicester, 2001.
• Sussex Health Authority: Benzodiazepine Withdrawal.
• Benzodiazepines and their effects, Professor Ian Hindmarch, January, 1997.
• A Series of Benzodiazepine Articles, by Liz Wood, VOT, (Victims of Tranquillisers).
• Side-Effects of Librium, The Lancet, 1960.
• Quotations.
• Aggression, Violence & Benzodiazepines.
• Defendant acquitted of murder due to excessive prescriptive doses of Valium, Law Society Gazette, July 22, 1987.
• Extracts from: "Life Without Tranquillisers", Dr Vernon Coleman, MB, ChB, DSc (Hon), 1985.
• Sleeping Pills and Tranquillisers, Dr Norma Williams & Hetty Einzig, 1985.
• The Beat The Benzos Campaign Video, Ordering Details.
• Benzodiazepine Tranquillisers and Hypnotics: Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Health Committee 1999, sixth report, Professor C Heather Ashton, DM, FRCP.
• Oldham Tranx, Founder: Barry Haslam.
• Two Letters to Barry Haslam from David Blunkett MP and Paul Boateng MP regarding Benzodiazepine Tranquillisers, 1994.
• Benzodiazepines: A Risk Factor in Sudden Infant Death? Susan Bibby, Beat The Benzos Conference Speech, London, November 1, 2000.
• Sue Bibby's Benzact web site.
• Benzact, Sue Bibby.
• Talk Radio UK Interview with Mike Dicken and Susan Bibby, December 5, 1998.
• Sue Bibby's Pages at faxfn.
• Dangerous Prescriptions, faxfn.
• The Benzodiazepines: Toxicity, Cognitive Impairment, Long-Term Damage & The Post Withdrawal Syndrome, Dr R F Peart BSc, PhD, December 2000.
• Victims of Tranquillisers (VOT), Founder: Dr Reg Peart, Objectives & Activities.
• The Benzodiazepines: House of Commons Health Committee Inquiry on Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents & Outcomes in Medical Care, June 1999.
• Memorandum by Dr Reg Peart, Select Committee on Health, June 1999.
• Transcript of Verbal Submission, The Benzodiazepines, Dr R F Peart, June 30th 1999.• Comments on issues raised, at the Health Committee Inquiry on 24th June 1999, The Benzodiazepines, 30th June 1999.
• Additional answers to questions on 24th June 1999.
• "Tranquilliser Addiction – A Medically-Induced Epidemic", by Dr Reg Peart, June 15, 1998.
• Submission to Phil Woolas MP with regard to a Health Select Committee inquiring into the Benzodiazepines by Dr Reg Peart, 25 March 1998.
• Benzodiazepine Addiction – An Introduction, VOT Newsletter, 1995.
• A Doctor's Dilemma, Dr Margot Nelson-Owen, British Medical Journal, Volume 315, August 30, 1997.
• Bristol and District Tranquilliser Project, 88 Henleaze Road, Henleaze, Bristol BS9 4JY. Telephone/Fax: 0117 962 2509 (Office) · 0117 962 8874 (Helpline) · Mon - Thurs 10AM - 4PM, (UK Time).
• BAT - Battle Against Tranquillisers, PO Box 658, Bristol, BS99 1XP. Telephone (0117) 9663629/9653463. Mon-Sun 9am-8pm. Support for carers. Aims to help people who wish to withdraw from tranquillisers or sleeping pills. Provides individual counselling and local support groups. See also: Alternative BAT Site.
• Tranquilliser Withdrawal Support (West Suffolk), Blomfield House Health Centre, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1HE. Helpline: 01284 702550 (24 Hour Answerphone). Contact: Jeanne Geatches. Email.
• TRANX ACTION (BRIGHTON AREA), 22 Richmond Place, Brighton. BN2 2NA. Tel: 01273 626217. (Answerphone - Please leave your name and telephone number and they will call you back). Offer advice and information to people addicted to, and coming off, tranquillisers. Provide reduction plans and ongoing support by appointment. Can provide literature and free leaflets. Can take calls from around the UK.
• MOLD BENZODIAZEPINE SERVICE. A service run by the North East Wales NHS trust for people who are having difficulties with tranquillisers and sleeping tablets. Offers advice and support. Tel: 01352 706 725 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm).
• Tranx-Release Helpline. Tel: 0151 930 4287 (Mondays to Fridays 10am-3pm). Provides support and advice to people overcoming addiction to prescribed drugs, and associated problems. Can refer people to local support. Also offers counselling to people on hard drugs. Can take calls from around the UK.
• NECA (North East Council for Addiction), Bridge View House, 15 - 23 City Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2AF · Tel: 0191 222 1262 · Fax: 0191 263 9908 · Email: newcastlebvh@neca.co.uk. Professor Heather Ashton is a member of the NECA Executive Committee.
• Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (CITA), JDI Centre, 3-11 Mersey View, Waterloo, Liverpool L22 6QA, England UK. Tel: 0151 474 9626, Fax: 0151 284 8324. Helpline: 0151 932 0102 (Mondays to Fridays 10am-1pm). Advice and support for people addicted to tranquillisers and sleeping tablets. Information, advice and leaflets available on anxiety, tranquillisers and anti-depressants. Training offered for professionals.
• Benzodiazepines & Therapies, Pam Armstrong, The Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (CITA), Liverpool, England.
• The relevance of mind altering drugs to the counselling process, Pam Armstrong, The Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (CITA), Liverpool, England.
• Pam Armstrong's (CITA) Back To Life Web Site.
• The Drugs Myth, Dr Vernon Coleman.
• Anxiety and depression are overdiagnosed, Dr Vernon Coleman.
• Tranquilliser Hell, Dr Trisha Macnair.
• Substance Misuse Management in General Practice: Reviewing Benzodiazepine Prescribing in General Practice.
• Charles Medawar's Social Audit Anti-depressants Web Site.
• Against Mind Altering Drugs: Action on Psychotropic Medication.
• APRIL.ORG.UK. Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link.
• Benzodiazepine Addiction, Adverse Reactions & Withdrawal Symptoms Page at april.org.uk.
• Jelly junkies. Benzodiazepine Misuse by Dr Rod Tucker.
• Benzodiazepine Drugs & Anxiety (1), UK Academic Site.
• Benzodiazepine Drugs & Anxiety (2), UK Academic Site.
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