Representative: Sonja Styblo (retired)
Joint Representative: Geraldine Burns
W-BAD US State Resolution: OBTAINED
(State House 2016: Geraldine Burns / Senate 2018: Sonja Styblo)
Activities
2018
WHAT: (1) Distributing flyers possibly with table and folded sign, (2) Applying for W-BAD Senate Resolution
WHERE: Boston (Longwood Medical Area)
WHEN: Wednesday, July 11, all day event, but focused on morning/evening commute times and lunchtime
WHO: Anyone who would like to participate
DETAILS: (1) Join W-BAD’s Massachusetts representative, Sonja Styblo, and W-BAD’s United States representative, Geraldine Bruns, as well as many others on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018, in the Longwood Medical area for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day. W-BAD campaigners will be distributing information to passersby about the harmful effects of benzodiazepines taken as prescribed. See Events Page for more details on this event. (2) See below
ENQUIRIES: Sonja Styblo
MEDIA OUTREACH:
Sonja wrote:
Today 5 women (+ 1 ‘hubby’) stood up for truth in the belly of the beast. Longwood medical area, a small concentrated stretch, is home to many prominent Boston hospitals, universities and medical institutions where every day over 110k people visit. How were we received in handing out W-BAD material there? The response was overwhelmingly positive, more than I expected…
W-BAD Senate Resolution
A heartfelt thank you to Sen. Brownsberger and staff for helping to make World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day officially recognized beyond the House and into the Massachusetts Senate and Governor’s office this year. Recognition provided a much-needed boost of validation in the substantial community of marginalized, benzodiazepine iatrogenic victims in The Commonwealth and beyond, for which we are grateful.
Massachusetts joins Alabama and Connecticut in 2018 in issuing W-BAD proclamations & resolutions in acknowledgement of the as prescribed harm and ignorance of withdrawal syndromes surrounding this class of drug. (Maryland in previous years). Will Brownsberger
See W-BAD State Resolutions
