When doctors do not adhere to their basic oath…First, do no harm.
              WATCH THE TRAILER --
Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan – all belong to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines (benzos). News and entertainment media portray them in terms of addiction and abuse or as innocuous medications that relax nerves. AS PRESCRIBED documents a strikingly different narrative, following eye-opening stories of invisible illness and disability. Boston-based survivor Geraldine Burns leads a grassroots army of “good patients” that help other victims and advocate tirelessly for benzodiazepine harm awareness. But resistance is strong. Geraldine and her cohorts are opposed by powerful forces that include pharmaceutical giants and a medical culture that has denied the problem for decades.

Picture
For full article: lowninstitute.org/when-meds-taken-as-prescribed-still-cause-harm/
Picture
JOIN US IN NEW HAVEN ON OCTOBER 15!
Find tickets here:
SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 2022 
7 PM
Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas - screening room 9
86 Temple St
New Haven, CT
Please join us in New Haven, CT, at NHdocs!
​
More screening news coming soon!
Picture
Many Thanks to Claire in the UK 

​A Guest Blog

6/24/22
​


In “As Prescribed” Holly Hardman has taken on an almost impossible task - to communicate the incommunicable; namely the lived experience of the symptoms which accompany being on and discontinuing from prescribed benzodiazepine medication and the devastating fallout they can cause.  
 
She does this against a backdrop of many documentaries that came before hers, including ITV’s “Ada versus Ativan” which  (Cont'd.)
​​