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A Disorder 4 Everyone! (AD4E)

AD4E suggests that there are more helpful ways to understand emotional distress than seeing it as medical illnesses or disorder.

APRIL (Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link)

Promoting awareness of medicines that can harm mental health.

Adaptation Practice

A unique, safe and effective way to relieve emotional, psychological and mental suffering without drugs or talking therapies.

Akathisia Alliance

Nonprofit organisation formed by biochemists, psychologists, nurses, attorneys, business owners and others who have survived akathisia, suicidality, and devastating personal losses.

All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence

The APPG for PDD will recognise, address and reduce the harm caused by prescribed drug dependence.

All Trials

A group campaigning to get all drug trials published.

Angie Peacock

Angie provides practical and compassionate support for individuals embarking on a healing journey.

AntiDepAware

Following the suicide of his son after taking citalopram, Brian set up this site and trawled through newspapers and coroners inquests finding cases of suicide and homicide where antidepressants may have been the cause. He has logged over 8000 cases.

Antidepressant Coalition for Education

Nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the risks, limitations, and long-term impacts of antidepressant medications.

Antidepressant Statistics

US based organisation collating statistics of Adverse Drug Reactions from Antidepressants and psychiatric medication.

Australian Deprescribing Network

Promoting research, awareness, practice and policy on deprescribing to improve the safe and appropriate use of medicines for all Australians.

BAYLISSA.COM

Support for people healing from prescribed drug induced withdrawal and neurological dysfunction.

Beyond Meds

Natural methods of self-care for finding and sustaining health in body, mind and spirit.

Beyond Pills

The Beyond Pills Alliance aims to bring together like-minded organisations and individuals to progress the goal of moving UK healthcare beyond an over-reliance on pills.

Broken Medical Science

Film and interview channel based on sound science.

Brooke Siem

Writer, speaker, and advocate for the practice of safe de-prescribing for psychiatric drugs.

Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network

Promoting safe and appropriate use of medications for all Canadians.

Canadian PSSD Association

An association for people in North America experiencing Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.

Compassionate Mental Health

Compassionate Mental Health is working with a network of people across the UK and internationally to transform mental health services, and radically change the conversation around mental illness.

Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry

The Council exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference.

Crespi Family Hope

Dedicated to helping you make the best choices for you and those you love and to take side effects seriously.

Critical Psychiatry Blog

Thinking differently about mental health - Moving from an outdated physical disease model of mental illness to a more relational mental health practice.

Critical Psychiatry Network

A broad critique of mainstream psychiatry that has emerged in recent years which challenges some of psychiatry’s most deeply held assumptions.

David Healy

Psychiatrist. Psychopharmacologist. Scientist. Author. Blog that is updated daily and offers reader debate. A leading expert on antidepressant induced psychosis and expert witness on high profile cases where antidepressants have been thought to be the cause of homicides, violence and suicide.

Deprescribing.org

Deprescribing research and guidelines support healthcare providers and patients in reducing or stopping medications that may be harmful or no longer needed.

Dr. Josef Witt-Doering

A board-certified psychiatrist with a specialization in identifying and treating psychiatric adverse drug reactions.

Drugwatch

Provides up to date information on drug recalls and side effects. Brought to you by law firm Wilson & Peterson LLP.

Everglow, The Rebecca Kruza Foundation

Campaigning to create Rebecca's Law to safeguard mothers and babies where psychotropic medications are used, and instigate a review of Mirtazapine.

FreeRange Psychiatry

Kendra Campbell, MD holistic psychiatrist passionate about bringing awareness to the harms caused by medicating the human experience.

Generation Rx

Educational resources to help prevent the misuse of prescription medications. A partnership between The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy and the Cardinal Health Foundation.

Guidance for Psychological Therapists

Guidance aimed at helping all psychological therapists to learn about the potential impact of psychiatric drugs on the practice of therapy.

Hearing Voices Network

A positive approach to hearing voices, seeing visions or similar experiences.

Hearing Voices Network USA

A partnership between individuals who hear voices or have other extreme or unusual experiences, professionals and allies in the community.

HeartCore Collective

A healing community working to empower individuals on their healing journeys with education, resources, and support so they can make informed choices about their mental health.

Inner Compass Withdrawal Project

Information and support helping people withdraw from psychiatric drugs.

Institute for Scientific Freedom

Works to preserve honesty and integrity in science and to help develop a better healthcare where more people will benefit; fewer will be harmed; and more will live longer in good health.

International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW)

Supporting the process of reducing and withdrawing from psychiatric drugs through practice, research and training.

International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP)

A haven for mental health practitioners, academics, and consumers who are against the medicalization of human distress and troublesome behaviours.

Joanna Moncrieff

Books, papers and blogs by Joanna Moncrieff.

Kim Witczak

A leading global drug safety advocate and speaker with over 25 years professional experience in advocacy, advertising, and marketing communications.

Know More About Drugs

An alliance of medical professionals, child advocates and parents who champion the right of parents and caregivers to be warned about the most serious side effects of prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs.

LEAP for Prescribed Drug Dependence

A national advisory panel of people with lived and professional experience of providing support, advocacy and research for prescribed drug dependence.

Laura Delano

Laura met the mental health industry age thirteen, spent fourteen years as its patient, and left it in 2010, when she realized that psychiatric diagnoses and drugs were not her answer.

Let Them Eat Prozac

A site created by Professor David Healy exploring threats to public safety and academic freedom surrounding the SSRI group of drugs – Prozac, Zoloft (Lustral), Paxil (Seroxat/Aropax).

MISSD

Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation in Memory of Stewart Dolin.

Mad in America

Science, Psychiatry and Social Justice. Providing news of psychiatric research, original journalism articles, and a forum for an international group of writers.

Mad in Canada

A catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care, scientific research and social justice across Canada. One of a growing group of Mad in America’s Mad in the World Network.

Mad in Ireland

Mad in Ireland’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for fundamentally rethinking theory and practice in the field of mental health in Ireland, and promoting positive change.

Mad in the UK

Fundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice and promoting positive change.

Madi's Law

A Canadian petition for safety waivers for psychotropic drugs

Mark Horowitz

An academic psychiatrist in training on how to stop psychiatric drugs. Mark has experienced and studied antidepressant withdrawal symptoms. He shares his personal and professional insights on his website.

Med Shadow Foundation

Nonprofit health journalism telling the whole truth about the risks and benefits of medicines.

Medicating Normal

Film about the damage that is done by the inappropriate medicalisation of human predicaments and the reckless prescribing of psychiatric drugs.

MindFreedom International

MindFreedom leads a nonviolent transformation, championing human rights and options in mental health care, uniting psychiatric survivors, consumers and allies with movements for justice everywhere.

Network of European Researchers in Deprescribing (NERD)

A multidisciplinary research-focused network whose aim is to generate and support collaboration between deprescribing.

Olly's Future

Olly was prescribed Citalopram over the phone. After just four days of taking this, he was overwhelmed and compelled to end his life suddenly. Olly's Future is a campaign to ensure that the first time a patient is prescribed an anti-depressant, that they are seen by a doctor, face to face, so that they know the risks and possible side-effects.

Open Excellence

Charitable organization with a mission to sponsor research and programs that promote better mental health outcomes.

Outro

Comprehensive support for safe tapering. Outro helps you reduce your reliance on medication, minimize withdrawal symptoms, and build sustainable mental well-being.

PSSD Institute

An independent nonprofit organization committed to advancing understanding of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).

PSSD Network

A non-profit charity organization based in Australia, led by PSSD patients and their loved ones. The site aims to provide a comprehensive platform that encompasses all aspects of PSSD, ensuring that people can access relevant information easily.

Peter Breggin

Peter Breggin MD, psychiatrist, legal expert, therapist known as “The Conscience of Psychiatry.”

Peter Gøtzsche

A Blog About Drugs.

PostScript360

PostScript360 supports people to reduce the harms caused by prescription drugs prescribed or bought illicitly.

Psychotropic Deprescribing Council

Founded to bring clinicians, other healthcare professionals, patients, and the general public together to address the rational deprescribing and tapering of psychotropic drugs.

Recovery Road

Lots of useful ideas on how to withdraw from antidepressants and benzodiazapenes.

Restoring Study 329

Medicine’s Most Infamous Clinical Trial.

RxISK

RxISK is a free, independent drug safety website to help you weigh the benefits of any medication against its potential dangers.

SIDEfxHUB

A charity dedicated to improving the lives of individuals affected by Post-Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) and Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).

SSRI Stories

SSRI Stories is a collection of over 6,000 stories that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) in which prescription drugs were mentioned and in which the drugs may be linked to a variety of adverse outcomes including violence, suicides and homicides.

Safest Drug

Public health responders to medication harm with the aim to prevent and alleviate medication-related illness, disability, and death in the United States.

Sami Timimi

Consultant Child, Adolescent Psychiatrist and experienced Psychotherapist.

Seroxat Secrets

A Blog about Seroxat.

Social Audit

The centrepiece of the website is a case history in pharmaceutical medicine, a 25,000 word (250K) paper by Charles Medawar that raises some unthinkable questions.

Stopping Antidepressants - Royal College of Psychiatrists

Information is for anyone who wants to know more about stopping antidepressants.

Stuart Shipko

Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Surviving Antidepressants

Surviving Antidepressants is a peer support group for people withdrawing from antidepressants.

Taper Clinic

A taper program led by compassionate and knowledgeable medical experts.

TaperMD

Leading-Edge Medication Therapy Management and Drug Review Tool.

Taperingstrip

Responsibly reducing medicine intake using taperingstrips to regulate the tempo of dose reduction.

The OLLIE Foundation

OLLIE is devoted to empowering individuals and organisations to reduce suicide in their communities through education, intervention, and prevention.

True You Psychiatry & Wellness

Dr. Jennifer Giordano is a psychiatrist who specializes in safe deprescribing of psychiatric medications.

UK PSSD Association

An association for people in the UK experiencing Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction.

UnScripted

A youth-led movement dedicated to combating the overprescription of psychiatric drugs. Committed to advancing evidence-based alternatives to psychiatric drugs. Empowering children and families to embrace emotional resilience over medication-first solutions

Wildflower Alliance

A grassroots Peer Support, Advocacy, and Training organization with a focus on harm reduction and human rights.

Will Hall

Mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher.

Join founder of Antidepressantrisks.org and Adele Framer from the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council (https://psychdeprescribing.org) for a discussion about antidepressant deprescribing.

SPOTLIGHT

The Psychotropic Deprescribing Council was founded to bring clinicians, other healthcare professionals, patients, and the general public together to address the rational deprescribing and tapering of psychotropic drugs.

The mission of the organisation is to advance safe and responsible psychotropic deprescribing through research and education in best clinical practices.

A list of other organisations that offer information and support.

Organisations

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