Addressing Non-Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication: A Harm Reduction Approach
Article in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
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Are There Schizophrenics for Whom Drugs May be Unnecessary or Contraindicated?
1978 study of 80 young males diagnosed with acute schizophrenia, finding that "many unmedicated-while-in-hospital patients showed greater long-term improvement, less pathology at follow-up, fewer...
Recovery & Renewal: Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills,...
"Recovery and Renewal is an essential guide for overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants. It is a useful, insightful...
My APA protest speech: “Keeping the Channel Open”
If you haven't been labeled mentally ill by the American Psychiatric Association, you have to ask yourself what's wrong. Perhaps you were ahead of the game: you knew not to reveal yourself to them, you knew how to avoid them, you found other social support, and if so, a big congratulations. If not, what's wrong? Why have you conformed?
Performance Artist Goes “Off Her Meds” For Art
The Daily Beast reports that Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak is weaning herself off a cocktail of antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs in a Brooklyn gallery...
Making Sense of Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Website of Mind, U.K.
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“West Virginia Allows Painkiller Addicts to Sue Prescribing Doctors”
“CBS News went to West Virginia, a state that is attempting a drastic solution: allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked.”
Coming Off Psychiatric Meds
Comingoff.com is a website that "...aims to give you up to date information about psychiatric medication, how it functions and the withdrawal process. It is...
Psychiatric Times Offers “Discontinuing Medications: When, Why, and How-to”
Psychiatric Times is offering an online continuing medical education (CME) course designed to "present information on why a patient might decide to discontinue psychotropics...
Benzo.org
U.K. based website focussing on benzodiazepine addiction, withdrawal & recovery.
“6 Prescription Drugs That Aren’t as Safe as the Government Claims”
“A quick look at drugs or drug uses that later turned out to be risky shows a disturbing trail of ‘bought’ science in major medical...
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Will Hall's Harm Reduction Guide, published by the Icarus Project and Freedom Center.
Rufus May
Rufus May, Ph.d., also known as "The Doctor Who Hears Voices," is a clinical psychologist who has also been forcibly hospitalized, medicated, and diagnosed...
“Survivors Push for Withdrawal Hotline and Change”
“Two Scots whose lives have been ravaged by prescription drugs are battling for recognition of the devastating withdrawal issues as well as proper support for victims,”...
Coming Off Medication
Article by Guy Holmes and Marese Hudson in Mind
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Video on Coming off Medications: A Harm Reduction Approach
This 39-minute video by therapist and activist Will Hall provides some basic guidance for anyone considering reducing or coming off psychiatric medications and their...
Why Is It So Difficult to Stop Psychiatric Drug Treatment?
Joanna Moncrieff's 2006 paper in Medical Hypotheses discusses the possibility that the research on maintenance and discontinuation of medication is flawed because it fails...
The Antidepressant Solution
Book by Joseph Glenmullen, a "Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence and 'Addiction.'"
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CBT Helpful For Benzo Discontinuation
CBT helps in benzo discontinuation, over and above relaxation training and contact with a therapist. Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.
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Potential Adverse Effects of Discontinuing Psychotropic Drugs
Abrupt discontinuation can paradoxically cause the same effects as both medications and illness itself, this study in the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental...
Video: Coming Off Medications: A Harm Reduction Approach
Video by Will Hall explaining some of the important things to consider when choosing to reduce medications.
Med reduction notes
Alt Therapies for Bipolar
Alternative to Meds (Safe Harbor)
BenzoBuddies — Benzo Withdrawal
Med Free or Working on It
Paxil Progress (SSRI withdrawal forum)
Surviving Antidepressants (help withdrawing from...
“4 in 10 Know Someone Addicted to Prescription Pain Killer”
A new poll, published in the Washington Post, explores the public’s connection to prescription pain killer abuse. “A surprising 56 percent of the public say...
EFT for Medication Withdrawal
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) involves tapping on stress-relieving points of the body while reciting affirmations to help manage withdrawal symptoms. This approach has been...
