Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Exploring the Science
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
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🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
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Our next psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall discussion will be held on May 14 2021, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/150023595613
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This week on the MIA podcast we are providing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall held in March 2021.
This discussion was aired live on March 12, 2021 and the panelists are Dr Giovanni Fava, Dr Peter Groot, Dr Mark Horowitz and Professor Joanna Moncrieff.
For this discussion, we asked what science and research can tell us about the experience of withdrawal. We discuss research effort that has called into question long-held professional beliefs about the effects of psychotropic drugs on the brain and nervous system.
Panelists
Giovanni Fava
Dr Giovanni Fava is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has authored more than 500 scientific papers and performed groundbreaking research in several fields. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
Peter Groot
Dr Peter Groot is a researcher who started using antidepressants. His own experiences helped him to develop a practical solution proposed by many patients to help prevent withdrawal problems from antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs.
Mark Horowitz
Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and psychiatric academic at University College London who is currently coming off psychiatric drugs. His work and research focuses on how to safely stop psychiatric medication.
Joanna Moncrieff
Dr Joanna Moncrieff is a psychiatrist based in community mental health services in North East London. She also teaches and researches at University College London. Joanna is one of the founding members and the co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.7 | Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:17.6 | And this week we are providing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug |
| 0:22.6 | withdrawal town hall held in March 2021. But before we get there, I wanted to let you know that we |
| 0:29.0 | have recently released a second podcast which is called Madden America Science News. In our new |
| 0:35.8 | podcast, Peter Simons, Mad in America's Science News writer and editor |
| 0:39.9 | provides a weekly summary of newly published research findings related to psychiatry, |
| 0:45.7 | psychology and mental health. You can find the new podcast on Apple, Spotify and Google |
| 0:52.3 | by searching for Mad in America Science News. So please do go and |
| 0:57.2 | subscribe. I also wanted to mention that our next psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall will be |
| 1:03.7 | held on May the 14th, 2021. For our third discussion, we're examining protracted problems that can |
| 1:10.7 | arise after psychiatric |
| 1:12.2 | drug withdrawal, sometimes referred to as post-acute or post-withdrawal syndromes. |
| 1:19.0 | These experiences can include chronic health problems and sexual dysfunction. |
| 1:23.9 | What do we know and not know about responding to long-term health problems after coming off psychiatric drugs? |
| 1:31.4 | So please join us on Friday, May the 14th, 2021 at 9am Pacific Time, 12 noon US Eastern Time, 5pm BST and 6pm in Europe |
| 1:43.5 | for a panel discussion that will include questions and comments from the audience. |
| 1:49.1 | It's a register you can visit maddenamerica.com where you'll find a registration link on the homepage, |
| 1:55.1 | or you can visit eventbright.com and search for psychiatric drug withdrawal. |
| 2:04.0 | So now on to our podcast and the following audio was recorded at our second psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall. The discussion was aired |
| 2:10.1 | live on March the 12th, 2021 and the panelists are Dr Giovanni Favar, Dr. Groot, Dr. Mark Horowitz and Professor Joanna Moncrief. |
| 2:21.3 | For this discussion, we asked what science and research can tell us about the experience of withdrawal. |
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