BenzoStopJuntos
Also: Stop Benzos Together
A multidisciplinary programme of the Andalusian Health Service supporting patients to taper and stop benzodiazepines through education, behavioural support and non-drug alternatives.
- Years
- 2025–now
- Country
- Spain
- Topic
- Low value carePatient safetySleep
- Asks people to
- Stop
- Strategy
- Self efficacy
- Channel
- Clinical setting
- Audience
- Adultslong-term benzodiazepine users
Evidence
ExperimentalPositive
Cluster trial: effect at 6 months persisted to 5 years (41.7% vs 33.8% abstinent; adjusted OR 2.11). Believing long-term use is safe and fearing worse sleep predicted continued use; quality of life did not worsen.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Andalusian Health Service (SAS) State local government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Effectiveness at long-term of a multidisciplinary intervention in the reduction of overuse of benzodiazepine prescriptions: A cluster controlled trial evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.03.063 · PMID 40157872
- Risk perception, attitudes, and quality of life in a multicomponent benzodiazepine deprescription strategy evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1016/j.rcsop.2025.100666 · PMID 41142506
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Linking 40157872 to BenzoStopJuntos is an inference from shared first author (Ferrer López) and setting; check. startYear 2025 is the earliest dated source found, not a confirmed launch year.
Record cases/es-benzostopjuntos.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign