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How to Draft a Public Comment for ASAM Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Angie Peacock, MSW, CPC // Healing Coach

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If you need help submitting your comment, please email me at [email protected]


How to submit a public comment:

Step 1: Get a blank piece of paper or open a blank word document.

Step 2. Write a factual account of what happened to you or use one of the prompts below to get you started. Here are some topic ideas w/ line and page numbers and citations ready for you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c...

Step 3. Proofread what you wrote, omitting anything that could cause the person reading it to become defensive or to ignore what you wrote.

Step 4: Open https://www.research.net/r/BZD_CPG to submit your comment.


List of prompts to get you writing:

What do you wish were in place during your process that would have helped? What services were missing?

What happened to you that could be prevented in other patients?

Dream solutions: what services are needed? Paid peer services, therapists in the know? Longterm programs paid by insurance? Caregiving and respite services? Outpatient deprescribing clinics?


Do’s and Don’ts

DO write as if you are writing this to a psychiatrist who doesn’t know anything about this issue

DON’T use language they wouldn’t understand or take out of context: (ie. tolerance withdrawal means something to benzo people, less so to psychiatrists and addiction medicine professionals

DON’T curse them out, even though you want to. Write that part first then delete.

DO write a FACTUAL and leastpassionate narrative of what happened to you, what you wish happened instead of what you want included in ASAM clinical practice guidelines.

DO ask for help from a healing buddy or email me at [email protected] if you need help submitting your comment.
DO ask ONE other person to submit a comment too.

Together we heal. Together we change this.


Example comments from other organizations

The Alliance for Benzo Best Practices Comments: https://benzoreform.org/asamguidelin...

Benzo Information Coalition Comments: https://www.benzoinfo.com/2024/07/02/...


References to pull from (but not mandatory)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F...

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