Grunt Style Foundation War Cry For Change Roundtable - Washington DC

Join global experts, surviving families, and veterans with lived experience for a National Veterans Harm Reduction Roundtable, exploring the relationship between medications and veteran suicide - Hosted by the Grunt Style Foundation, in partnership with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans.

This convening is a follow-up discussion from the House Veterans Affairs Committee’s 2010 hearings titled “Exploring the Relationship Between Medications and Veteran Suicides.” On June 5th, this half-day convening is being hosted from 12-5 PM EST in the US Capitol Visitor Center, Room SVC 212-10. We are honored to bring together legislators, veterans, surviving families, mental health professionals, veteran service organizations, and global experts to examine the role medication prescribing practices can play in veteran suicides

We are honored to be joined by global experts in medicine, research, and advocacy, including:

• Dr. Peter Gøtzsche – Physician, researcher, and co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration

• Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring – Board-certified psychiatrist, founder of the Taper Clinic, former FDA regulator, and former clinical researcher at Janssen

• Dr. Larry J. Miller – board-certified emergency medicine physician who has treated more than 130,000 emergency patients and sadly lost his son Mark to suicide less than two months ago

• Robert Whitaker – Investigative journalist, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, and founder of Mad in America

• Kim Witczak – Global drug safety advocate, marketing executive, and former member of the FDA’s Psychopharmacological Drug Advisory Committee

• Angela Peacock – MSW, CPC-ICF, Psych Drug Withdrawal Consultant, Patient Advocate, Coach, Combat Veteran

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/war-cry-for-change-to-end-veteran-overprescribing-tickets-1365007206299