Canada Information
The Effects of Tranquillization: Benzodiazepine Use in Canada, Health Canada Publication, 1982.
The big sleep: Canada's dangerous love affair with tranquillizers, canada.com, July 12, 2012.
Long-term use of anti-anxiety drugs continues in BC despite known health risks, UBC, May 20, 2010.
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, Canada, April 2004.
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).
Addiction by Prescription, Victoria Times Colonist, February 1, 2002.
Les Benzodiazépines: Comment agissent-elles et comment s'en sevrer ? Professor C Heather Ashton DM, FRCP, 2002.
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.
Benzodiazepines: Responsible Prescribing & Informed Use, Joan E. Gadsby, October 9, 2001 (Revised). Healthcare: Recommended Resolution to Canadian Government.
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.
Triazolam Dispensing Guidelines, College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 29 January 1999.
Dr Ray Baker's Article on Addiction: Benzodiazepines in Particular.
Les Benzodiazépines: Plus dangereuses qu'on ne le pense, The Women's Addiction Foundation.
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