How to Avoid Severe SSRI Withdrawal Symptoms?
After long-term use, most people are going to have serious symptoms when stopping SSRIs. Many people are going to have transient, mild to moderate difficulty and some are going to end up falling down the akathisia rabbit hole. That is a long, difficult drop.
Antidepressants Facts
Antidepressants Facts is an extensive archive of information, news articles, research studies, and survivor stories of antidepressants. The site lists links to numerous studies and...
Happy, Joyous, Free: Life After Alcohol, Benzos and Other Drugs
This website was created and designed to help anyone who has been adversely affected primarily by benzodiazepines, other psychotropic drugs, and/or alcohol abuse get to...
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day
W-BAD is the official website for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, an international campaign to raise global awareness about iatrogenic benzodiazepine dependence and the dangers of...
Bloom in Wellness
Bloom in Wellness is a website designed by Baylissa Frederick, a licensed therapist and coach who lives with two chronic medical conditions and has experienced...
Toxic Antidepressants
The Toxic Antidepressants site was created to inform people who are taking, tapering or are currently off of antidepressants about the dangers of these...
Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Support Site
The Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Support Site is a place to learn about benzodiazepine side effects, tolerance, dependency, addiction, withdrawal symptoms and protracted withdrawal syndrome. The...
The Benzo Book
Millions of people are at risk of dangerous dependency from commonly prescribed tranquilizers and sleeping pills. The Benzo Book by Jack Hobson-Dupont examines this problem in depth...
New Study Examines User Experience of Discontinuing Psychiatric Medications
Researchers find that support and self-care were helpful for users during discontinuation, but that mental health professionals were not very helpful.
International Antidepressant Withdrawal Project
The International Antidepressant Project helps people make a fully informed decision about taking antidepressants, discusses dangers connected with taking them, advises on tapering methods...
YouTube Channel: Benzo Brains
Benzo Brains is a YouTube channel created by Jocelyn Pedersen, a benzodiazepine survivor, advocate, and Mad in America blogger. The videos offer tips and advice...
YouTube Channel: Toxic Antidepressants
The Toxic Antidepressants YouTube channel was created to inform people who are taking, tapering or are currently off of antidepressants about the dangers of...
Beyond Benzos: Benzo Addiction, Benzo Withdrawal, and Long-Term Recovery from Benzodiazepines
"Now termed by some as the world's deadliest pill, the class of drugs known as benzodiazepines are on the cusp of racing past opiates...
Worse Than Heroin
"The most pervasive drug problem in the world is not heroin, not crack, not crystal meth, not pot, not any of the illicit drugs....
Accidental Addict: A True Story of Pain and Healing…also Marriage, Real Estate, and Cowboy...
A memoir by Linda Crew about her inadvertent addiction to and recovery from doctor-prescribed opioid painkillers and the benzodiazepine Xanax.
Linda Crew was a happily married mother...
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition (BIC) is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, formed in August of 2016, that brings together a network of medical professionals, patients,...
Bristol & District Tranquilliser Project
Originally founded in 1985 as a tranquilliser withdrawal group, the Bristol & District Tranquilliser Project (BTP) is a voluntary organization set up to help...
Recovery Road
Recovery Road provides self-help information, coping tools and other resources for individuals affected by withdrawal and dependency on sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers, Z-drugs and antidepressants,...
Beyond Meds
Created by mental health professional, ex-patient, and Mad in America blogger Monica Cassani, Beyond Meds is one of the largest archives of information about...
Crazy And It Was
"CRAZY AND IT WAS is a frighteningly compelling, multi-layered story of one individual's lost years in the prescription drug-saturated medical and mental health systems....
Surviving Antidepressants
Surviving Antidepressants is a peer support forum for tapering from antidepressants and withdrawal syndrome. This is a great place to get advice and tips...
When Switching Antipsychotics, No Difference Between Immediate and Gradual Discontinuation
Review study compares outcomes of gradual vs. immediate antipsychotic discontinuation when switching from one drug to another.
African American and Hispanic Youth Discontinue ADHD Treatment at Higher Rates than White Youth
Study examines racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of care for Medicaid-enrolled children starting ADHD medication.
Joanna Moncrieff: Psychiatric Drug Mechanisms of Action
We discuss Doctor Moncrieff’s work to address the realities of psychiatric drugs and the groundbreaking RADAR study which focuses on antipsychotic drugs.
Holly Higgins: Becoming a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
Holly Higgins shares her experiences of the psychiatric system and psychiatric drugs, how she approached withdrawal from the drugs and talks about how she became a nutritional therapy practitioner.
