It is well-known that attempting antipsychotic withdrawal can be a fraught process, with a high risk of relapse that often leads people to resume the medication. Nonetheless, there is a group of people who appear to be able to discontinue successfully. Miriam Larsen-Barr and Fred Seymour have published a study in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology …
Dr Swapnil Gupta, who sits on IIPDW’s Board of Trustees, has given an interview to Carlat Psychiatry on the topic of deprescribing in psychiatry. You can listen to the Podcast here.
In 2019, Public Health England published the results of its Review into the issue of Dependence and Withdrawal Associated with some Prescribed Medicines, which set out several recommendations for organisations in health and care to optimise prescribing of these medicines. As a follow-up, in order to implement these recommendations NHS England and NHS Improvement issued …
Update: the second in the series of ‘Town Halls’ will focus on ‘Exploring the Science of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal’, and you can reserve your place on Eventbrite here. You can watch the first in the series on YouTube here. Mad in America, the Council for Evidence- based Psychiatry and the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug …
Carina Håkansson, co-founder of IIPDW talks on Swedish television about the rising number of people using antidepressants and the need for better support for those wanting to withdraw or reduce. She explains that the large number of young people on antidepressant drugs today can be understood as a huge experiment.
Following the recent publication of a report entitled The Patient Voice on Prescribed Dependence, the Telegraph has printed this article by Miranda Levy on the situation in the UK for people coming off antidepressants.
Following the Public Health England Report, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has published an excellent document on ‘Stopping Antidepressants’ including evidence-based tapering guidance, co-authored by IIPDW Associate Dr Mark Horowitz.
Professor John Read, Chair of the IIPDW Board, has written a blog in Psychology Today about his journey to find out more about antidepressant withdrawal effects, and the recent key developments in our understanding of the issue.
The Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center, which is a private psychiatric hospital located about forty minutes north of Oslo was set up by its director, Ole Andreas Underland to provide “medication-free” care for those who wanted such treatment or who wanted to taper from their psychiatric drugs. You can read more about it, and the rise of …
We’d like to spread the word about this FREE virtual screening of Medicating Normal on Thursday October 15th 2020 at 5.45pm UK time. Medicating Normal is a new, unreleased documentary that examines the current paradigm of mental health treatment including overdiagnosis, overprescribing and rampant polypharmacy. Renowned Stanford University psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke praised the film …