Welcome to the Videos Page. Here you will find a series of W-BAD campaigning videos and clips of general interest together with people’s stories. Please note that documentaries are housed separately.
The Inaugural W-BAD
Wrap-up Video of 2016
The 2016 wrap-up video shows how W-BAD came about and how people banded together in solidarity while campaigning and expressing themselves through various events, art, music etc. Evident is the level of excitement and validation that the event generated, helping to bring people together across the globe in a united stand for recognition and change.
The Joe Rogan Experience
Jordan Peterson on Getting Off of Benzodiazepines
Joe Rogan talks to Jordan Peterson about what it’s like to withdrawal from prescribed benzodiazepines and expresses concern that his friends are also having difficulties with these medically prescribed drugs.
Jordan Peterson’s Experience
Peterson Family Update June 2020
Re-released to Co-inside with World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, July 11, 2020
Jordan Peterson says: “This video discussion was previously released (June 30th, 2020) on my daughter Mikhaila’s YouTube channel and podcast.
Since it is World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day (July 11th), and in light of the seriousness of the public health related information it contains, I have decided to also release it here.”
W-BAD Campaigning Videos
Benzodiazepine Evidence Hearing
Japan House of Representatives – Tokyo, November 7, 2019
On November 7, 2019, in an exact mirroring of numbers from July 11, a Benzodiazepine Evidence Hearing was held at the Japan House of Representatives, First members Building, Conference Room 1.
Speakers included W-BAD Founder Wayne Douglas, Tokyo Metropolitan Legislator Ms. Reiko Ueda, and Leading Japan Ophthalmologist Dr. Masato Wakakura.
The hearing was organized by Yuriko Tada from The Association for Psychiatric Drug Damages Japan. In attendance were several other speakers, supporters, victims and politicians.
Post Hearing Press Conference
Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare – Tokyo, November 7, 2019
Following the Benzodiazepine Evidence Hearing on November 7, 2019 above, a press conference was held at the Press Conference Hall in the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare Building, Tokyo.
In attendance was W-BAD Founder Wayne Douglas, Tokyo Metropolitan Legislator Ms. Reiko Ueda, Leading Japan Ophthalmologist Dr. Masato Wakakura and Organizer Yuriko Tada together with members of the press.
Benzodiazepine Public Appeal
Garden Clock Square – Matsumoto, November 24, 2019
On November 24, 2019 W-BAD Founder Wayne Douglas took to the streets in Matsumoto, Japan to make a public appeal, posing questions about the benzodiazepine problem to political party leader Yamamoto Taro during a political party launch. He followed up by handing out hundreds of W-BAD pamphlets to onlookers and supporters. Wayne says the reaction from the crowd was positive with this initiative creating a flow on effect as the political rally continued to move around the country.
W-BAD Parliamentary Info Drop
Government Buildings: House of Representatives and Upper House of Councillors – Tokyo, December 6, 2019
On December 6, 2019 W-BAD Founder Wayne Douglas, together with supporting volunteers and politicians, initiated a W-BAD Info Drop at the Government Buildings: House of Representatives and Upper House of Councillors in Tokyo, distributing information on benzodiazepines and W-BAD pamphlets to all 713 national politicians, including the Prime Minister’s Office at the House of Representatives and meeting with well known politician, Yoshimi Watanabe. Wayne borrowed $1,000 from a friend to make this happen (while confronted with life difficulties).
At the Door of Prime Minister’s Office – House of Representatives
W-BAD Founder, Wayne Douglas, at the door of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Office
W-BAD Contribution Videos
Introduction
This section houses playlists containing some of the videos from all of the past World Benzodiazepine Awareness Days that have occurred. The video playlists below are divided into four categories: compilation videos, individual story videos, educational/public address videos, and creative videos. The playlists are easy to watch. To find all videos that exist for W-BAD, go to W-BAD’s YouTube channel and also search YouTube using ‘World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day’.
Notice
Please see the W-Bad Relaunch Notice for details regarding limited availability of social media resources, wider event coverage and memorabilia.
Short video submissions from 2016 that were put together by W-BAD into 3 compilation videos:
For W-BAD 2016, people from all over the world were asked to share their experiences, including being sickened and seriously harmed by benzodiazepines, details of the invalidation they received, and how the benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome affected them. They also shared accounts of their (sometimes long-term) illness resulting directly from as-prescribed benzodiazepine prescriptions and their reasons for participating in World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2016.
These are their stories
VICTIM STORIES 2016: COMPILATION 1 OF 3
VICTIM STORIES 2016: COMPILATION 2 OF 3
VICTIM STORIES 2016: COMPILATION 3 OF 3
Each year, on July 11th, many W-BAD campaigners also post their own videos to YouTube where they tell their stories of prescribed harm. The following playlist houses some of those many videos from prior W-BADs:
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Videos were also submitted that were educational in nature or public addresses and that documented the campaign activities of W-BAD participants around the globe:
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Lastly, the following videos were submitted by campaigners that took a more creative approach at expressing prescribed benzodiazepine harms and dangers:
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Sharing your own story on YouTube and other social media outlets is a powerful awareness tool.
For instructions and guidance on preparing a video, go here.
