Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.

Hi, this is James, and this is just a short message to tell you about something new coming up that may interest you.

Mad at 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 10am Pacific Time, 1pm Eastern Time and 6pm GMT. The panelists 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 Reed, Professor of Psychology

and Chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug

Withdrawal, and Luke Montague, co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, and a member

of the Nice Guideline Committee for Safe Prescribing and Withdrawal. To register for the first

discussion, just visit maddenamerica.com and use the link at the bottom of the

homepage. 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.

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views and updates.

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