Lobbying

Garnering support is important for the cause.

An important aspect of W-BAD is campaigning and lobbying, which allows us to can garner the support of influential and understanding people to the benzodiazepine cause and ask for their help with various existing (pending) initiatives, or with assistance in creating new initiatives.

This involves contacting “key people” in governmental or influential positions about the benzodiazepine problem with a view to improving available support, regulations, and legislation. You can do this by email, letter or phone.

Campaign by location:

United Kingdom
United States
Canada
ジャパン Japan
France
Australia
New Zealand
Campaign from ANY LOCATION

If you would like to submit campaigning ideas and/or information for your country or location, please Contact Us with all of the relevant information that will be required to guide the public in participating.

 

 

W-­BAD Founder, Wayne Douglas, submits a petition to a Japanese Ministry of Health Official during the inaugural 2016 #WORLDBENZODAY

The petition requested: controlled prescribing periods, training for all medical workers, establishing of specialized withdrawal facilities, and the general abolishment of prescribing these drugs to children unless deemed absolutely necessary.

It was submitted together with an earlier doctors’ petition, which Wayne also had the opportunity to contribute towards by sharing his experience of iatrogenic (medically induced) benzodiazepine dependency and associated suffering, along with his insights gained through subsequent campaigning efforts.

Pictured below: W-BAD participants lobbying the Health Ministry in 2018 on #WORLDBENZODAY