About IIPDW

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Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome & its Management 

Stevie Lewis & Dr Mark Horowitz

OUR AIMS

Support research and practice-based knowledge that will facilitate safe reduction of and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs.Contribute to evidence-based practices for reduction of and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs, and facilitate their inclusion in general practice guidelines.Support the human right to informed choice with regard to psychiatric drugs.Promote practices that help families, friends, and practitioners support safe reduction of and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs, and take into account relational and social aspects essential to this process.
IIPDW is committed as an organization to pursuing and embodying the values of social justice. As part of our work to support, research, and educate about psychiatric drug withdrawal, we see it as integral to uphold the values of anti-racism, gender equity, and support of civil rights for people who identify as LGBTQ+.

CONTACT US

Get in touch at info@iipdw.org to get to know more about our work. Also find us on Twitter and Facebook. Or read our Governing Document.

IIPDW is a UK Registered Charity no. 1195569

The purpose of this website is to provide general information about psychiatric drug withdrawal and IIPDW. We hope it can enable visitors to have more informed discussions with your prescribing doctor. This website does not give specific, individual medical advice.

You will be helping to add to the growing call for a global response to the issues of psychiatric drug withdrawal and iatrogenic harm.

RECENT NEWS

NEW VIDEO on Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome & it’s Management

Review of Beverley Thomson’s book ‘Antidepressed’ by Stevie Lewis, IIPDW Board Member

Health Insurers Must Finally Reimburse the Tapering of Medication Using Tapering Strips

We have lost Ed White, advocate, researcher and supporter

Tackling the Problem of Antidepressant Withdrawal

Jim van Os and Peter Groot discuss Tapering Strips

The Psychiatric Drugging of Children – Town Hall Discussion

The case for establishing a ‘minimal medication’ alternative for psychosis and schizophrenia

Stories of Reducing Antipsychotics Webinar

Special issue on Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs

An Open Letter to NICE in the UK

New Paper on Stopping Antipsychotics

Open Excellence Foundation supports IIPDW

‘What I have learned from helping thousands of patients taper…’

Online UK Training Video for Psychological Therapists