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MIA's Amy Biancolli interviews Adele Framer, founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, about psychiatric drug withdrawal.

It is with great sadness that we write about the loss of one of our colleagues from the psychiatric drug withdrawal community; Doctor Ed White.

Jim van Os and Peter Groot discuss their paper: “Successful Use of Tapering Strips for Hyperbolic Reduction of Antidepressant Dose: A Cohort Study”

Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry 43 The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world. Yet, we have experienced an observable and exponential rise in poor mental health outcomes, disability rates, and suicide over the past several decades. Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of An Epidemic provides the world with alarming statistics that cannot be ignored. The rise in the number of disabled mentally ill has been especially pronounced since 1987, the year that Prozac, the first of the “second-generation” psychiatric...

Online Experts on Withdrawal Online forums have emerged to help people who are navigating withdrawal alone Online peer support forums offer people taking psychiatric medication valuable information and advice about withdrawal. Such online communities help us understand withdrawal as an integral part of mental health treatment and recovery. This article argues that it is necessary to validate this new resource so that this content is accessible not only to patients, but also to prescribers. Many patients who choose to discontinue psychiatric medication end up pursuing withdrawal without their ...