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Jun. 9 Event: Stories of Reducing Antipsychotics: Withdrawal Effects or Relapse? May 24, 2021 From the UCL Beacon Bursary fund: “There is increasing awareness of the difficulties in coming off psychiatric drugs, with antidepressants receiving much of the attention in research and services. The effects of coming off antipsychotics have been less well explored, and the difficulty of distinguishing between withdrawal effects and relapse may lead to drugs being restarted or doses increased. This event aims to explore the lived-experience perspective when attempting to distinguish withdrawal ef...

Cochrane Review Calls for More Research on Antidepressant Withdrawal Researchers find a lack of current literature on safe, effective ways to manage antidepressant withdrawal and make suggestions for future research. 15 A new Cochrane review examines the current body of research on stopping antidepressant use, finding a major lack in this area. The researchers call for further investigation into safe and effective strategies for stopping antidepressants. “We know the rise in long-term antidepressant use is a major concern around the world,” says lead review author and Belgian-based resea...

Sharon Davies has a simple message for anyone whose GP recommends they start taking the drug pregabalin to deal with anxiety. ‘Don’t,’ she says. ‘Please, just don’t.’ During the two years she spent on the drug, Sharon experienced a range of ‘unbearable’ side-effects, including dizzy spells, mental ‘fuzziness’ and extreme weight gain. Then, in July last year, when she tried to stop taking Lyrica — one of several brands of the drug (pregabalin is the generic name) — she was hit by withdrawal symptoms so severe that she had to take sick leave from the job she loved, worki...

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...

April 15, 2021 CBS handed out more renewals this week, adding “NCIS,” “Blue Bloods,” “Magnum,” “Bull,” and “SWAT” to the list of returning series. The shows will be joining the renewed comedies on the network, as well as the upcoming spinoffs that were announced earlier this year. With the renewal, “NCIS” will return for a nineteenth season, and Mark Harmon is expected to return. The series, which has been running strong since 2003, also stars Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Maria Bello, Brian Dietzen, and Diona Reasonover. Belisarius Productions, in ...