Laura Delano
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first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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minimize those increasing disruptions that happen when you're getting to lower and lower dosages.
I know that sounds dense and technical, but basically like five to 10% a month based on whatever dose you were on the previous month is generally the rate that people find leads to the least disruptive withdrawal symptoms.
Right now, you have no choice, basically, but to do it in your kitchen, whether it's with a knife or you're making a liquid mixture with water and using syringes, because currently these drugs are not manufactured in dosage sizes that enable you to taper safely.
So people have had no choice but to become...
basically their own pharmacists at home doing like kitchen experiments.
What I hope will, you know, one of the reform efforts underway at HHS, I think what would be really helpful to the American public is to find a way to ensure these drugs are manufactured as liquids so that you can make reductions, you know, with a liquid, which is much easier to do than with a solid tablet.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Or making them available in tablets in
like a wide range of dosage sizes.
Currently, you cannot taper safely unless you pay for a compounded prescription or use a liquid.
And that needs to change because as more people wake up to the fact that they don't necessarily want to take these drugs for the long haul, if they don't have the ability to do it safely,
it will be a public health crisis.
I hear you.
And that was me in 2010.
And what I often say to people is the fastest way to come off and stay off a psychiatric medication is to go very, very, very slowly.
As slow as your body needs to avoid disabling withdrawal symptoms.
So it might feel like
It's going to take a lot longer.
If you come off too fast, a lot of people end up back on meds or even on more meds.
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