Angela Peacock Interviews Dr. Alexis Ritvo: May/23

Angela Peacock, MSW and benzodiazepine withdrawal survivor, interviews Dr. Alexis Ritvo. 

Dr. Ritvo serves as the Medical Director of the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices. She is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Topics addressed include how benzodiazepines affect the nervous system, safe benzodiazepine prescribing and deprescribing, tapering, and pharmacogenomic testing.

Alexis Ritvo, MD // An MD's Experience with Benzodiazepines