If you want to be part of the solution, join the The Alliance. Whether you are a medical professional, a benzodiazepine-injured person, or someone who wants to prevent others from suffering injury, we can use your help.
Join Our BRIDGE Team
If you are a medical professional who is concerned about the problems with benzodiazepines or Z-drugs, the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices can provide you with a platform and connections to help put evidence-based solutions in place. Our Benzodiazepine Reform Is Determined and Guided by Evidence (BRIDGE) team is the place to start. BRIDGE members typically agree with Alliance goals, but as busy professionals cannot currently dedicate time to help the Alliance. BRIDGE will keep interested persons abreast of Alliance-sponsored programs, such as the studies and papers we commission and our CME series and books. Our hope is that BRIDGE team members will be able to use the materials that the Alliance produces, and some may choose to become active in the Alliance at some point.
This program takes little effort from the prescriber, but can have a big impact on patients. To join, just fill in the Join form, indicating areas of expertise and interest. Names, email addresses and other information of members are not used or published without your permission. Unless you contact us with questions or concerns, you will receive minimal emails from the Alliance – perhaps a few per year.
Join the Best Practices Alliance
If you are motivated to be part of team that is dedicated to reducing the number of people who suffer benzo withdrawal, we’d love to talk with you. Even if you can only help intermittently, you can make a difference.
The Alliance is actively seeking advisers who have expertise in the following areas:
- Benzodiazepine receptor agonist neuropharmacology
- Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome (BZWS)
- Benzodiazepine risks & adverse outcomes other than BZWS
- The role of benzodiazepines in the opioid crisis
- Epidemiology with an interest in benzodiazepines
- Alternatives to benzodiazepine use
- FDA and DEA process
- Communications (inter-organizational, media)
- Outreach & fundraising
- Medical and/or tax law
- Website design
- Video editing