“Hopefully, much of that is behind me and I can return to something resembling a normal life,” said Peterson. Try refreshing your browser, or 'I’m alive': Jordan Peterson back in Canada after lengthy medical treatment, he says in emotional new video Back to videoIn the eight-minute video, Peterson explains he had been suffering from “severely impaired health,” after he had begun using benzodiazepines, drugs such as Valium, often used in the treatment of anxiety, in 2016 or 2017. “That’s put me in and out of hospitals for much of the past year,” he said on the video. Peterson said he started using benzodiazepines and “really never gave it a second thought.”“That was a mistake, to say the least,” he said. The University of Toronto professor found stardom over his objection to Bill C-16, a piece of legislation that added gender identity to Canada’s human rights and Criminal Codes.

Source: National Post October 19, 2020 23:48 UTC