Tapering support

 

Outro Health provides evidence-based & compassionate support to help you taper off psychiatric medications, at your own pace.

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Witt-Doerring Psychiatry  is a group of expert drug tapering psychiatrists and medical professionals. 

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Companion Guide to Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and tapering

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Support Groups

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BenzoBuddies community are encouraged to exchange ideas, information and support during the process of withdrawal and recovery from prescribed benzodiazepines.

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Surviving Antidepressants is a support website for people tapering and recovering from the effects of antidepressants. While some people may be able to quickly stop taking psychiatric medications without serious discontinuation symptoms, others cannot.

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More Groups on Benzodiazepine Information Coalition

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Books

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The Ashton Manual is considered the "bible" of benzodiazepine tapering and withdrawal

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker

 

​Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill​​​ by Robert Whitaker

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Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform by Robert Whitaker

 

Death Grip: A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness by Matt Samet

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Fallen Standing - My Life as a Schizaphrenist by Val Resh

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Recovery and Renewal: Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants by Baylissa Frederick

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Organizations

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Mad In America is a non-profit whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for remaking psychiatric care in the United States and abroad.

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Inner Compass Initiative provides information, resources, tools, and connecting platforms ​to facilitate more informed choices regarding all things "mental health" and to support individuals and groups around the world who ​wish to leave, bypass, or build community beyond the mental health system. More resources from Inner Compass. 

 

Benzodiazepine Information Coalition is a non-profit organization that advocates for greater understanding of the potentially devastating effects of commonly prescribed benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Ativan, Valium, and Klonopin, as well as prevention of patient injury through medical recognition, informed consent, and education.

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The Bristol & District Tranquiliser Project is a voluntary sector organisation set up originally in 1985 in England to help those having problems with certain prescribed psychotropic medication (benzodiazepine tranquillisers/sleeping tablets, other sleeping tablets and antidepressants).

 

Recovery-Road is a chairtable organization formed by Baylissa Frederick based out of England which supports people as they taper and recover from tranquilizers (benzodiazepines) and sleep drugs, along with other psychiatric medications.)

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The Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry (CEPUK) exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference.

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Hearing Voices is a small national charity that helps create more spaces for people of all ages and backgrounds to talk freely about voice-hearing, visions and similar sensory experiences

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The Red Door (TRD) was set up in 2011 by Reshma Valliappan (Val Resh) and Aparna Sanyal. The idea behind TRD came from what was already a growing movement across the world – to form an intersectional response to emotional distress. This understanding came from cutting-edge research in the social and neuro sciences, being used in successful models of recovery in mental illness in different parts of the world.

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International Spiritual Emergence Network provides a collaborative platform that connects networks around the world and offers compassionate support to those who understand their experiences to be a spiritual crisis rather than a mental illness, raising awareness of a non-pathological integral framework within the mental health field.

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Websites

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Beyond Meds is a website created by psychiatric survivor Monica C. This blog documents and shares many natural methods of self-care for finding and sustaining health in body, mind and spirit.

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DOCUMENTARIES

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As Prescribed is a documentary which highlights the dangers of prescribed benzodiazepines.

 

Letters from Generation RX features the devastation that psychiatric drugs can cause.

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Medicating Normal is the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

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Crazywise is a documentary about how the traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience.

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Articles

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The Boston Globe, When Withdrawal is the hardest part by Jeremy Fox

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Scientific American, Has the Drug-based approach to mental illness failed? by John Horgan

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FDA, FDA requires labeling changes for benzodiazepines

 

World Health.net, Can Taking Xanax Lead to Suicidal Thoughts?

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Live Science, Killer Drugs? Homicide Risk Linked to Medications by Cari Nierenberg

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The Gazette, Thousands of Colorado patients put in peril due to risky prescribing of psych medicine by Christopher Osher and Evan Wyloge

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Newsweek, Psychotropic Medication and Addiction: What You Can Do by Diane Stein

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FDA requires 'black box' warnings for opioids, benzodiazepines

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