Mad in America, in partnership with the Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry and the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug withdrawal is arranging a series of free to attend online town hall discussions on psychiatric drug withdrawal.

We aim to explore what we do and don't know about safe withdrawal from antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and stimulants.

We will discuss the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to support those who may be having difficulty getting off psychiatric drugs.

By doing this we hope to stimulate further discussion between service users and prescribers.

Our first discussion will be held on Friday January 15th at 10 AM Pacific time, 1 PM Eastern time and 6 PM GMT.

The panellists for the first discussion are Adele Framer, founder of Surviving Antidepressants; Swapnil Gupta, a Board Member of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and a psychiatrist with a special interest in deprescribing; John Read, Professor of Psychology and Chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal; and Luke Montagu, co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry and member of the NICE guideline committee for safe prescribing and withdrawal.

To register for the first discussion, visit madinamerica.com and use the link at the bottom of the home page or click here:

https://bit.ly/psych-drug-withdrawal

We hope that these discussions will add to an increasingly detailed collection of knowledge and experiences that can inform prescribers when providing informed consent and when implementing gradual tapering regimes.

We very much hope you can join us.