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World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day

World Day of Benzo Awareness: Helping You Sleep Better Without Benzos

For the World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, the BE-SAFE project is sharing helpful resources to raise awareness about the risks of benzodiazepines, as sleeping pills. But also, to promote health habits to improve sound sleep in older people. The resources below are available:

• Infographics on Sleep Myths and Risks of Sleeping Pills:
  • Myths About Sleep: Learn the truth about common sleep myths.
  • Risks of Taking Sleeping Pills: Understand the dangers and side effects of sleeping pills.
• Real-life based stories from patients and healthcare providers who successfully reduced or stopped using sleeping pills.

 

Infographics on Sleep Myths and Risks of Sleeping Pills

 

Click on the images below to enlarge and download the BE-SAFE infographics on sleep myths and risks of sleeping drugs:

                 

 

 

Real-life based stories

Select in the list below your target country to read the testimonials. All documents contain testimonials in the local languages plus their respective English translations:

 

BELGIUM

GREECE

NORWAY - Not available -

POLAND

SPAIN

SWITZERLAND

 

 

BE-SAFE in a nutshell

The BE-SAFE project is targeting patient safety by addressing knowledge and practice gaps related to the reduction of medications used for sleep problems in Europe. Experts and patients are involved to promote an interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial approach. BE-SAFE is a European research project funded by the European Commission Horizon programme under the work programme HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CARE-05-01: Enhancing quality of care and patient safety) and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) (contract No 22.00116). The project duration will be from 2022 to 2027.

Press contact
Prof. Anne Spinewine	Laura Fernández Maldonado
Project coordinator Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium	Communication Coordinator Fundació Salut I Envelliment, Barcelona, Spain
anne.spinewine@chuuclnamur.uclouvain.be	Laura.FernandezM@uab.cat