The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center five years ago, is now available in a revised edition!
The new second edition has expanded Resources, scores of new collaborators and Advisors, new topics, more detail on the reducing and coming off process, and additional ideas for harm reduction and staying on medications.
Thousands of people worldwide have used this Guide to help themselves and people they know become more empowered around medications, including coming off. Even professionals and mental health agency staff have been downloading the free guide, to fill gaps in their own knowledge and give to their clients. Now the Guide in its second edition is even better, incorporating reader feedback and new ideas.
What are some of the differences with the new Second Edition?
Expanded Resources, including vital tools such as Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic and Monica Cassani's website Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry
More than twice as many Collaborators and Health Care Advisors
Additional art and graphics
Revised science discussion, to reflect new popular awareness of neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, and epigentics
More comprehensive section on staying on meds and harm reduction, including a list of common tests
Additional nutrition and holistic health advice
New conclusion on looking to the future and redefining "norma"
A section on "do no harm" that addresses prescriber responsibility
New consideraton of the risks of using holistic healers
Lots of little tweaks in accuracy and comprehensiveness (such as that some medications can't be cut with a pill cutter, and that liquid potencies can vary by brand)
Deeper appreciation for the placebo effect and medication response as a social construction
New section with ideas on what to do if someone you know is overmedicated.
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