This website contains information about antidepressants and how to stop antidepressants by minimising antidepressant withdrawal symptoms via hyperbolic tapering of drug dose.

The RELEASE toolkit includes education and training packages for doctors and a suite of printable resources that have been co-designed with people with lived experience of long-term antidepressant use and doctors (general practitioners).

Resources include information brochures (Stopping antidepressants, How family and friends can help), a Decision aid, and Tapering plans for 15 commonly prescribed antidepressants, including ‘slower’, ‘even slower’ and ‘faster’ versions for most antidepressants.  

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Research Lead: Professor Katharine Wallis.
Funding:   Medical Research Future Fund, Clinician Researchers Applied Research in Health - MRFAR000079.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2021 Partnership Projects PRC3 - 2015744.
Ethical approval: The University of Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (2022/HE001667).
Further information is available via the RELEASE website: medical-school.uq.edu.au/release