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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.

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.

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.

Canadian PSSD Association

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

Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry

Council for evidence based psychiatry 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 Network

Critical psychiatry is 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. He is a leading expert on antidepressant induced psychosis and has been an expert witness on most 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.

Generation Rx

Provides educational resources to help prevent the misuse of prescription medications. Provided through 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.

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)

We are 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.

Let Them Eat Prozac

David Healy website 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

Provides news of psychiatric research, original journalism articles, and a forum for an international group of writers.

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.

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 Network

At the PSSD Network, our goal is to increase awareness of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction, expedite research, and offer support to patients and their loved ones as necessary. Furthermore, we aim 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

Incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 2023, the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council arose from the experiences of patients, their friends and families, and medical professionals who realized that more detailed knowledge about deprescribing psychotropics is a need that is becoming more pressing day by day.

Recovery Road

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

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

Providing accessible in-person and online training, events, initiatives and resources, including prescription safety awareness, to reduce the number of people who feel like suicide is their only option.

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.

Will Hall

Mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher.

Woody Matters

An independent voice in the everyday world championing for drug safety, pharma transparency & consumer rights through advocacy, art and education to create a safer future for generations.

Medication Induced Suicide

An interview with Wendy Dolin, founder of the Medication Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation (MISSP) in memory of Stuart Dolin.

SPOTLIGHT

A list of other organisations that offer information and support.

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