AATA!!!

For a free online support forum and information on benzodiazepine addiction, toxicity and withdrawal please visit www.thetrap.org.uk or click on the forum image above. The site has lots of information and a free online support forum community.

Welcome to AATA (action against tranquilliser addiction)! We are a registered voluntary organisation set up to tackle the harm caused by benzodiazepines and related drugs and to further our political aims.

AATA was formed from the members of TRAP forums.

Our long term aim is to reduce the number of people who become dependent, to their detriment both physically and socially, on Benzos prescribed by their physicians.
We have therefore formed this organisation to advance our wider political aims and seek to influence both the medical community and those who make legislation on our behalf as to the pernicious effects of these harmful drugs.
We have many people who support our aims including distinguished members of the medical profession and local and national politicians.
The links to other sites can provide further detailed information and we would encourage you to visit them.

The aims of AATA are as follows:

(1) Raise awareness and push for action on benzodiazepines at the political level.

(2) End the discrimination against iatrogenic benzodiazepine addicts disabled by their medically induced addiction.

(3) Push for a 24 hour helpline for benzodiazepine addicts.

(4) Raise awareness of the increased mental health problems associated with chronic benzodiazepine usage.

(5) Push for a medical investigation to establish whether long term benzodiazepine use causes permanent brain or neurological damage.

(6) Highlight the protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome and why specialist services are required to manage this syndrome.

(7) Highlight the significant increased rate of criminal offending associated with the non medical use of benzodiazepines.

(8) Highlight the significant problems associated with benzodiazepine misuse.

(9) Raise awareness of the increased risks of benzodiazepines in the elderly.

(10) Raise awareness of the harm benzodiazepines have on the unborn child in utero.

(11) To raise awareness that although benzos are harmful, stopping benzos too quickly without specialist support is much more harmful.

(12) To raise awareness of benzodiazepines and drug related deaths.

(13) To provide access to trained counsellors knowledgeable in benzodiazepine addiction and withdrawal to provide support to addicts and their families.

(14) Work in partnership with healthcare providers to provide best practice guidelines and healthcare for managing benzodiazepine dependency and withdrawal.

(15) Make withdrawal services available nationwide for iatrogenic benzodiazepine addicts so that they get at least the same access to specialised services that illicit benzodiazepine misusers have access to.

(16) Campaign for the government to provide funding for local and voluntary benzodiazepine withdrawal organisations.

(17) Campaign for an independent public health inquiry into benzodiazepines.

(18) Push for home office reclassification of benzodiazepines from class C to class A drugs.

(19) To raise awareness of the reasons why people end up on benzodiazepines in the first place.

(20) To raise general awareness of the fact that all psychotropic drugs will cause a withdrawal syndrome.

Action Against Tranquilliser Addiction