As Prescribed: a documentary film by Holly Hardman

For over fifty years, doctors have been prescribing benzodiazepines. The drugs bear well-known names: Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan. They are commonly thought of as safe, helping to take the edge off or give a better night's sleep. As Prescribed, however, documents a strikingly different narrative. Through personal accounts and investigating mounting evidence, the film reveals the errant medical culture that promotes them. The result is the story of an epidemic that is devastating lives globally.

Right Care Alliance on Director/Producer Holly Hardman and As Prescribed

For full article: ​rightcarealliance.org/article/film-highlights-harm-benzo-overuse/

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THE BLOG
5/23/21

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​Mother's Day 2021

Last year’s Mother’s Day was grim. There were too many reports of mothers and grandmothers lost to Covid. At home, my daughter was struggling with the adjustment to remote learning and separation from her peers. Work on As Prescribed had transitioned to a painfully slow year of remote editing with routine interruptions and delays. Overseeing kids and adjusting to the slog of safety protocols was morphing into safety paranoia and was taking a toll. Learning that the prescribing rates for anti-anxiety medications (primarily benzos) had increased dramatically pressed on my psyche also, while I tried to communicate to non-benzo people the rising benzo epidemic that was piggy-backing on Covid and the similarities between long Covid and benzodiazepine Cont'd

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