Christy Huff, Medical Director of Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, Dies

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Dr. Christy Huff was a cardiologist who experienced a benzodiazepine injury first-hand after taking prescribed Xanax for just three weeks in 2015. She had to slowly taper using Valium and experienced a disabling withdrawal over three years, leading her to realize the serious risks and harms of these drugs and the danger of the benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome. Dr. Huff became a fierce advocate for better education of doctors regarding benzodiazepines and how to safely taper patients off of them. Dr. Huff passed away in 2024. Her loss to the benzodiazepine community will be huge.

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  1. Christy Huff was a brilliant, compassionate, courageous women who worked very hard to expose the dangers benzos posed to patients
    and to educate doctors and other health professionals about withdrawal and tapering these neurotoxins. She was beautiful and kind and fought so hard to recover from her own injuries. Condolences to her family and friends. The pain of this loss is unimaginable.

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  2. It’s such a tragedy that we have a doctor who experienced this horrific BIND and ended up dead. Why aren’t people given the information that Dr. Heather Ashton knew about decades before by the prescribing doctors? How many people have taken their lives that we don’t know about bcuz they were looked at as being mentally ill. As someone who has endured this protracted withdrawal, I can tell you that I never actually wanted to die. I just couldn’t suffer from the agony of BIND. God kept me alive over 20 suicide attempts for a reason. I’ve elected to stay on my medications in order to be here for my family, but I know that one day the medications won’t work and I’ll either have to suffer or take my life. It’s something that I would not wish on my worst enemy. Dr.Huff did an excellent job trying to get the information out there. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies don’t want that information known.

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