During the Covid-19 pandemic
You will want to contact meeting facilitators in your area about whether their meetings are being held or if they have moved online. We have added some online meeting resources, not all specific to psychiatric drug withdrawal, but places where you may continue to find support for recovery.
Online Psychiatric Medication WARM Meeting **NEW**
An online peer support group for anyone experiencing withdrawal from psychiatric and other medications. We are here to listen to and encourage one another. We do not give medical advice on how to taper.
Time: Every Wednesday 2:00 pm EST
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3874767014?pwd=NWhlU0t2c09aNG5kL1pxQzlZVEZNQT09
Meeting ID: 387 476 7014
Passcode: 2RR48Q
Contact Person: Laurie Oakley 513-800-1978
Benzo Warrior Community – Zoom Meetings
Please join the Benzo Warrior Community on Facebook to find out how to attend ONLINE peer support meetings. All those in varying stages of benzodiazepine withdrawal and recovery are welcome.
The purpose is threefold:
COACHING * CONNECTION * COPING
Inner Compass Conversations ~ most Saturdays from 1-2PM EST
These livestream conversations held in our closed “Inner Compass Conversations” Facebook group are an opportunity for the ICI team to connect with our community, share experiences and resources, and often feature special guests. Since we started running them last year, our Conversations Community has grown a great deal, and becoming a critical and vibrant space in which to stay connected. (If you aren’t yet a member of our Inner Compass Conversations Facebook group, please join here!)
Contact person: Laura Delano
In The Rooms is a free online recovery tool that offers 130 weekly online meetings for those recovering from addiction and related issues. We embrace multiple pathways to recovery, including all 12 Step, Non-12 Step, Wellness and Mental Health modalities.
Our primary purpose is to live our lives to the fullest by minimizing the effects of chronic pain and chronic illness in our lives and helping others to do the same. We define recovery as: The ability to live peacefully, joyfully, and comfortably with ourselves and others.
Native American Wellbriety 12 Step Meetings
White Bison offers Wellbriety (sobriety/wellness) recovery and addiction prevention learning resources to Native American/Alaska Native communities nationwide. Many non-Native people also use White Bison’s healing resources, attend its learning circles, and volunteer their services. Online Wellbriety meetings have emerged during the pandemic that welcome ALL nationalities and ALL types of recovery groups.
CANADA
TORONTO
*GAM – Gaining Autonomy Self-Management of Medication
When: Every Monday – 1 to 2 PM
Where: Sound Times East 280 Parliament St, Toronto, Access Sound Times on Poulette Street (the back of our building)
Tel 416.979.1700
Description: Learning and understanding psychiatric medication and its effects on all aspects of a person’s life. Creating spaces of open dialogue around one’s needs and preferences with respect to medication. It’s about making decisions, self-advocacy, engaging external supports, limiting risks and taking charge. GAM bypasses the debate ‘for or against’ medication and shifts the focus instead on the subjective quality of life of the person who is taking the medication.
*This group is listed as a courtesy and is not officially affiliated with WARM.
NEW ZEALAND
AUCKLAND
When: Every Thursday, 06:00 PM ONLINE
Website: https://www.themindtribe.org/safetaperingsupportnz
Contact person: rachel@themindtribe.org
*This group is listed as a courtesy and is not officially affiliated with WARM.
UK
NORTH WALES
Prescribed Medication Withdrawal Peer Support Group
(formerly in Prestatyn now meeting via Zoom)
Description: A peer group to help people coming off prescribed drugs. Please join us, with your successes or problems, to support each other in a friendly group. Anyone within travelling distance of Prestatyn is welcome, as we hope to return to physically meeting in the future.
Second Zoom meeting is booked for March 10th at 6 pm GMT and continues fortnightly. Anyone interested in joining may contact Mary at the email below and be added to the Zoom list.
Contact Mary Hennessey ellen.hennessey@btinternet.com
WORCHESTER, UK
Worcester Withdrawal Group
United States
MASSACHUSETTS
This support group is now virtual on every Wednesday from 5:00PM to 6:30PM. To join the group by computer and/or phone:
https://advocates-telehealth.zoom.us/j/483620699?pwd=T2VBeTM1dlJQZzN5dXB1Vnd4VEJYdz09
- Enter Password: 351410 when prompted.
To join the group by phone:
- Dial +1 646 558 8656
- Enter Meeting ID: 515 506 104# and Password: 351410 when prompted.
Withdrawing from Psychiatric Meds, facilitated by members of the Advocates Peer Specialist team, is a non-clinical, mutual support group. The group is a safe place for people trying to come off or reduce their psychiatric medications to connect with like-minded people who are trying to, or have, accomplished the Herculean feat themselves, and who are committed to providing mutual support and understanding, share ideas and strategies, or just validate each other.
This group is open to anyone in the Framingham, MA community, not just individuals from Advocates, and participation is completely confidential.
For more information or to request ASL interpreters contact: PeerSupportGroups@Advocates.org.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Benzos – a Dance with the Devil Support Group Meetup
When: Thursdays 7:00 pm
Where: Concord, New Hampshire
Description: This group is for anyone who is struggling as a result of taking benzodiazepines. Whether you’re currently taking one as prescribed, in the process of tapering or experiencing withdrawal after coming off, all are welcome.
For those in this situation, it is imperative to be surrounded by compassion and support in these difficult times. My hopes in creating this Meetup group is to find others like me in the local area who want to get together offering comfort, understanding and company to our fellow warriors.
Web: https://www.meetup.com/Benzodiazepine-Support-Group-Meetup/
Organized by: Katherine L.
*This group is listed as a courtesy and is not officially affiliated with WARM.
OHIO
Holistic Mental Health Network of the Greater Cincinnati Area
When: Every second Thursday of the month 7:00 to 9:00 pm via Zoom due to Covid-19
WARM Network 