"Here is an essential handbook on how to safely and more easily wean yourself (under medical supervision) off the heavily over-prescribed psychotropic medications. I have used the program with my patients and it works!” Hyla Cass M.D. Author of Supplement Your Prescription

On the right side of each page of this site, you will find all chapters of the best selling book, How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs Safely - 2010 Edition. If you are currently taking or were taking a benzodiazepine, anti-anxiety medication, sleep medication, antidepressant, antipsychotic medication or ADHD medication, this book details what you can do to help with the existing side effects you may be feeling, as well as how to taper off the medication.

The 2010 edition of this book has taken the complexity out of the program and with new developments now available for the first time, a person can now taper off their medication in half the time it once took.

Many of you visiting this site for the first time are already in withdrawal or you have stopped your medication abruptly. Look to the left side of this page and move down this page until you see chapter 14, What to Do if You have Already Started to Taper Off Your Medication or Just Quit Cold Turkey. Follow the instructions found in that chapter for fast relief.

The Road Back staff is here to assist you throughout the entire process and our help is free. You can call us at 1-866-892-0238 or send us an e-mail to info@theroadback.org. There truly is hope and there is a solution. 

Dr. Donald E. McAlpine, Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic.: "It's important to taper off slowly, extending the taper over several weeks under your physician's direction. When you stop too quickly, you may experience so-called "discontinuation symptoms," which can masquerade as relapse."