After the conclusion of the 76-minute film screening, there will be a community discussion and Q&A about the topics raised in the film, with a heavy focus on benzodiazepines. Panelists include:

• Alexis Ritvo MD, MPH, board-certified addiction psychiatrist, program director for the CU addiction psychiatry fellowship and associate medical director for the UCHealth outpatient psychiatry clinic, and co-co-founder and co-chair of the Benzo Action Work Group.
• Dr. Lesley Brooks, board-certified family physician serving as the Chief of Addiction Medicine for SummitStone Health Partners and as the Assistant Medical Director for the North Colorado Health Alliance in northern Colorado.
• Terri L. Schreiber, CEO/Founder of The Schreiber Research Group, lived experience with the challenges associated with benzodiazepine tapering, withdrawal, and post-acute withdrawal, member of Benzo Action Work Group.
• John Staight, patient advocate who suffered through four years of chronic, unexplained physical and cognitive symptoms from benzodiazepine tolerance and withdrawal, which resulted in multiple misdiagnoses, member of Benzo Action Work Group.
• Trina Faatz, facilitator of the Boulder County Substance Use Advisory Group (SUAG) for Boulder County Community Services and Public Health, member of Benzo Action Work Group.

After the conclusion of the 76-minute film screening, there will be a community discussion and Q&A featuring:

• Stacy Hicks: Veteran Spouse, Life Coach, and Founder Loving My Veteran
• CDR Mary Vieten, PhD, ABPP: U.S. Navy, retired, psychotherapist and Founder and Executive Director of Warfighter Advance.
• Angela Peacock, MSW: former U.S. Army Sergeant, subject of the film Medicating Normal