“This book is one of the most important self-help books of this century.”
Dr. Lance Carlton Durrett

“This information can alleviate the unnecessary deep suffering caused by the appalling lack of mainstream knowledge about safe psychiatric drug tapering. Physicians and other health professionals owe it to themselves and their patients to become familiar with this book.”
Diane Tew, Rehabilitation Nurse

"This book should be read by all health care professionals before they enter the work force.  Thank you Jim for your compassion and dedication."
Amit Dhingra, Pharm. D.

The fourth edition book How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs Safely by James Harper, researcher and founder of The Road Back Program, details a proven successful method for tapering off psychotropic medications with separate chapters covering each of several classes of drugs, from antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-anxiety medications to ADHD drugs and benzodiazepines. This tapering method has been successfully used by more than 30,000 people and is endorsed by doctors across the US, as well as the UK and Europe.

When the author, James Harper was asked in a recent interview “what the differences are between the third and fourth edition of the book,” James stated, “the fourth edition was needed due to major breakthroughs. It was discovered how to get relief from the drug side effects faster and when a person is ready to begin lowering the medication they can now taper off in one-half the time it took using the third edition, while still feeling well during the process. You see, the key and goal to this program is to get a person feeling very well, and I do mean very well, before they ever begin to reduce the medication. This usually happens within the first few days of their starting and this gives them the comfort the program will work for them.

Most every person who uses this program has already tried to come off their medication and has failed because of the withdrawal side effects. They are usually very shy about ever trying to reduce the medication again and who would not be. So, you give someone a huge success initially, allow them to build their confidence and rebuild the body in the process and then reduce the medication when they are ready. This way a person can actually come off the medication feeling better than they have in a very long time.”

Millions suffering the myriad of side effects caused by antidepressants, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics and ADHD medications – from extreme weight gain to a dulled life – want to stop taking the drugs, their doctors would like to have their patients off the drugs, but cannot endure the emotional and physical pain involved with withdrawal or by what is known as discontinuance syndrome.  Drug companies now state in the drug descriptions the medications must be tapered off of slowly to help avoid this debilitating withdrawal syndrome. The common withdrawal side effects include; electric brain zaps, nausea, anxiety, strange behavior, insomnia even relapsing into conditions these drugs are supposed to address. 

 There is no need for anyone to suffer through withdrawal.

Anyone can use the information in this book, in conjunction with their physician, to come off psychiatric drugs virtually pain-free while often regaining a zest for life and without returning to the condition the drugs were intended to handle.  Doctors, who have previously too often been forced to watch patients suffer through withdrawal side effects, can now successfully walk them through this tapering process. 

James has now taken his work one step further by writing six additional books with more coming soon.

He is now taking each psychoactive drug, one-by-one, and writing a new book for each drug to take advantage of the little nuances a person or physician may use to help alleviate side effects from those specific medications.

Now available on Amazon.com: 

How to Get Off Cymbalta Safely

How to Get Off Effexor Safely
How to Get Off Lexapro Safely
How to Get Off Paxil Safely
How to Get Off Prozac Safely
How to Get Off Zoloft Safely
How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs Safely