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Tapering for Jesus

how drug warriors moralize the withdrawal process

by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher







June 27, 2023

2025 update


Americans are always trying to fit the downsides of prohibition (cold turkey, drug overdoses, incarceration, etc.) into a puritanical narrative, casting the victim of Drug War policy as a wayward soul in need of religion (or at least a "higher power") and a therapeutic realization of their own nothingness in the great scheme of things (which is ironic, since that's a humbling worldview that the Drug Warriors who create all these problems would never, ever think of adopting for themselves). What I hadn't realized until now, however, is that the practice of "tapering" a drug in the age of the Drug War is also a puritanical practice.

To see this clearly, ask yourself the following question: would a drug dealer tell you to "taper" a drug that you did not enjoy? No, of course not. He or she would tell you to ratchet up the use of a drug that worked better for you. The only reason we promote tapering is because we have outlawed all the better substances that one might use in the case of a problem - and the fact that removing a psychoactive drug without replacing it creates issues that allow us to medicalize and moralize the experience of the "taperer," thereby creating jobs for therapists and keeping the drug user cast as the prodigal son or daughter, only lately coming home to a hypocritically defined "sobriety" and a higher power (ideally, of course, to the Christian God of the average Drug Warrior).



This is why I have no interest in getting off of Effexor, despite the fact that it tranquilizes me and turns me into a ward of the healthcare state. I am a 64-year-old with a busy work schedule, I do not have time to devote my "golden years" to a psychologically nerve-wracking struggle with withdrawal, not in an age in which all the medicines that could guide me through the experience (empathogens, opium, coca, speed...) have been outlawed.

Because the last thing that the Drug Warrior wants is for a user (even of a legal medicine) to get off of a psychoactive medicine easily. Then there is no way to open clinics for them and make a business model out of helping them, or a career in criminology out of arresting them. Then there is no way to cast the withdrawal experience as a moral drama, with the devil sitting over my left shoulder, urging me to continue using, and the angel sitting over my right shoulder, urging me to keep the course, full speed ahead to the monotheistic and self-denying religion of my forebears.

As always, materialist science abets this anti-patient approach by fretting that scientific onlookers need to keep their variables straight. When the withdrawal process involves multiple drugs (one that you're tapering off and others that you're ratcheting up), it is impossible to know which drug is doing what. And since the rights of the materialist come before those of the patient, the obvious answer to this dilemma is to deny the "taperer" additional medicines until such time as they have "gotten off" of the undesired substance.

If I had that much "psychological downtime" to throw away in my life, I would devote it to moving to a country or state that's less determined on throwing me in jail for improving my mental attitude with godsend medicines.

This is the evil of the Drug War: they portray it like they're jailing scumbags (black and poor), but what they are really doing is jailing those who seek to improve their lives, advisedly or otherwise. Besides, it's racist to the hilt. When Betty Ford announced the fact that she was abusing Valium (whatever that means), Americans pitied and respected her and ultimately praised her for developing treatment protocols for rich, white, respectable women like herself who wanted to return to the hypocritical sobriety of the Drug Warrior.

It never occurred to Betty that folks were using Valium for a reason, and that if long-term Valium use proved to be problematic, it did not therefore follow that any and all drug use was problematic. That's like saying that Amoxicillin did not work so there's no use in trying azithromycin.



Author's Follow-up: January 4, 2025

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For more on this totally ignored topic, see my essay on Fighting Drugs with Drugs: .



Author's Follow-up: January 11, 2025

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You Can't Get There from Here



So, I called a compounding pharmacy in Maryland yesterday. The pharmacist sounded friendly at first and it seemed like she was actually going to be able to compound the drug into doses that made sense for me from a psychological point of view. This would mean that each daily pill would be fractionally reduced in drug content from its predecessor of the day before.

But I soon found out that this is not how compounding works. They can't just take the existing pill beads from my current prescription, count them, and then re-encapsulate them into specific new doses. No, they have to use Effexor powder of their own and write entire new formulas for each new pill dose, which service, as the lady assured me, would be astronomically expensive.

Yes, they could provide Effexor in liquid form, but not in the "extended release" formula that I had been taking -- and the liquid form would require monthly prescriptions since the liquid only remains chemically viable for a short time.

In other words, "you can't get there from here." Or in still other words, no one is thinking about the "patient" when it comes to Effexor formulations. No one has a financial interest in making withdrawal easy. They want us to remain children and rely on our doctors to set their own schedules for us using commercially available doses. Then, if we're so ungrateful to modern chemistry as to want to get off the drug entirely, we're told that we can count the pill beads ourselves once we have reduced dosage to below 37.5 mgs, the smallest dose available from pharmaceutical companies.

It's as if doctors, exasperated by my assertiveness as a patient, had finally just thrown some Effexor pill beads on the ground and shouted: "Here, count them yourself if you're so ungrateful to modern medicine for its wonder drugs!" One is reminded of the scene in "The Imaginary Invalid" in which the hypochondriac's brother tells his sibling to stop taking his prescribed enemas and to start thinking for himself for a change. The Invalid's doctor is enraged to think that his cash-cow invalid would even consider such advice:

"I have just heard nice news downstairs! You laugh at my enemas, and refuse to take the remedy which I ordered. Unheard of! What an unprecedented revolt of patient against doctor!"


Of course, the liquid Effexor could work for me "in theory," even if it is not "extended release." In a way, it would be ideal for tapering since I could use a syringe to decide daily dosage on my own, based on my psychological state at any given time during the process. But the 30-day prescription is a non-starter. I have trouble getting pharmacies and doctors to reliably get me my three-month supply of regular Effexor and I can only imagine all the delays and busy phone lines I'd encounter in trying to get a liquid formulation delivered to my door on a timely basis, even assuming that the price was something close to reasonable.

Let me say for the record: I was polite to the woman. I never raised my voice or interrupted her. However, a note of irritation did creep into my voice when she started harping on my doctor's role in all this. You see, in my view, all my doctor needed to do was to write a prescription stating that I was to receive a monthly supply of liquid Effexor sufficient for 30 daily doses of 150 mgs. Then, if there was any left over, I could discard it.

But she kept saying things like, "Well, your doctor has to decide how much he wants you to take..." This was irritating to me because I had finally gotten my doctor to do things my way, to let me use my own psychological common sense, and now here is this pharmacist telling me that I needed to go back to daddy (er, my psychiatrist) and see what HE wants me to take and when.

After a five-minute chat, the pharmacist put me on hold, during which I was disconnected. She never called me back. There's no money in dealing with mere patients like myself. If you want to get off a Big Pharma drug, you're on your own. Now, if you're a dog, that's another story. Compounding pharmacies are all about compounding drugs for pets.

In a sane world -- one not controlled by billionaires, one in which corporations did not have the rights of individuals -- pharmaceutical companies would be required to provide low-dose formulations of their product that allow patients to taper off drugs without counting pill beads, without, that is, having to become compounding pharmacists in petto.

This anti-patient tapering reality provides just one more proof of the fact that American drug policy is anti-patient and inhumane.




Author's Follow-up: January 12, 2025

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Or Can You?






I had a "light bulb" moment yesterday. It occurred to me that I might achieve my tapering goals by having a compounding pharmacist create just two different kinds of pills for me: One would be a tablet containing 5 mgs. of Effexor, and the other would be a tablet containing 2.5 mgs. I could then create my own slow-mo reduction schedule to get off the drug entirely. For instance, I could plan to get off Effexor in one year by reducing down to 25 mgs. (5 mgs at a time) over the course of 180 days. I could then spend the latter half of that year getting off the remaining Effexor by steadily scheduled drops of 2.5 mgs. at a time. This would accomplish my goal of getting off Effexor slowly and incrementally, without large sudden dosage drops and without having to count pill beads.

This is not just stubbornness on my part. This is not just my desire to be different. The fact is that the recidivism rate is around 95% for long-term users who try to escape this drug1, and so it is clear to me that the status quo approach does not work. That is why I want to pursue a common sense approach in which I can get off the drug very slowly and very steadily, in a way that makes psychological common sense.

Remarkably, I seem to be the only Effexor user who has come up with this approach. That's not surprising, though, because the party line out there says that we patients know nothing. We are told that we should follow the tapering suggestions of our doctor. But our doctors cannot prescribe low doses of Effexor, for the simple reason that low-dose formulations do not exist. So if we insist on actually getting off the drug, he or she is eventually going to tell us to start counting pill beads, and that, quite frankly, is outrageous.

I don't know if you've ever tried to count pill beads of Effexor, but it is very difficult, finicky and frustrating. I would need a magnifying glass, if not a microscope, to accomplish this job, and counting the beads of just one 150 mgs. pill would take me an hour, and that's only if I managed to keep my cool without dashing the product on the floor and cursing modern medicine.

I also miraculously found a compounding pharmacist yesterday who understood what I wanted to do and feels that it is a great idea. We will get together this coming week to discuss the details, but so far it's "all systems go."

One important component of my plan is that the dosage reductions will not be written in stone. I will certainly not reduce dosage more quickly than my general plan suggests, but I will be open to proceeding more slowly than planned if and when I experience excessive discomfort that seems traceable to the withdrawal process.

Another crucial element of the plan is just common sense psychology -- and even common sense philosophy. A body has to work. Daily. There can be no sitting around whatsoever and thinking about one's fate.

It cannot be said enough, however, that this huge recidivism rate for Effexor withdrawal is really just an artifact of inhumane drug law. What is recidivism all about, anyway? It is all about a few tough hours in which one is suddenly climbing the walls. A few hours. And those few hours could instantly be made bearable by the creative and strategic use of a wide variety of substances that idiot Drug Warriors have outlawed. I can get along just fine for 95% of my life while I am withdrawing from the drug, but it is those few dismal and introspective hours that are the bane of the recidivist.

What happens is this: You reach one of those moments during the withdrawal scheme and you cast about for some way to escape the psychological pain... and you realize that there is nothing: certainly nothing effective. The Drug Warrior has seen to that.

Now imagine that you had laughing gas handy, or that you had access to a variety of phenethylamines created by Alexander Shulgin, or that you had DMT, in one form or another, to distract and perhaps even enlighten. Or maybe you had some opium on hand in smokable form. Or you had cocaine to bulldoze you through the angst. One could get through those dim hours without a problem. This is just psychological common sense. We do not need the FDA or pharma-backed researchers to tell us this.

It should go without saying that these drugs would have to be used advisedly according to the very specific conditions of any single case. I only have to mention this because the world (and hence even my readers) have been brainwashed to fear the creative use of psychoactive drugs and so they think only of the worst-case scenarios of such usage.

This is a horrible status quo because it promotes drug laws that rule out far more than dangerous use: they rule out ALL use, and so leave folks like myself sitting on their staircase at 2 in the morning with their head in their hands, contemplating suicide.

The idea is something like this: "If one white American teenager could die from using drugs, then no one should benefit from such drugs, in any way, ever." It is a hateful doctrine. It is a level of fearmongering that we do not associate with any other risky activity on earth: not with mountain climbing, not with horseback riding, and certainly not with hunting, drinking liquor, gun use, or driving a car.

But this is a digression from today's topic, a digression that would not be necessary except for the fearmongering of Drug Warriors.

So, to rewind and restart: All systems go. Stand by for new developments in my ongoing attempt to taper wisely -- or as wisely as possible given that the Drug War has outlawed everything that could absolutely ensure my success in getting off Effexor, or indeed almost any drug.

Addiction






Addiction is a hugely fraught subject in the age of the drug war. This is because the Drug War does everything it can to make drug use dangerous. It encourages addiction by limiting our access to all but the handful of drugs that dealers find it practical and lucrative to supply. It fails to regulate product so that drug users cannot know the dose or even the quality of what they are ingesting. Meanwhile, the drug war censors honest talk about drug use.

In short, until we end the drug war, we will not know how much addiction is a true problem and how much it is an artifact of drug-war policy. And yet materialist researchers tell us that addiction is a "disease"? Why is it a disease to want to improve one's life with drugs? One could just as easily say that people are diseased, or at least masochistic, if they accept their limitations in life without doing everything they can to transcend them.

Indeed, the very idea that materialists are experts on psychoactive drug use is wrong. It is a category error. The proof is extant. Materialist researchers today are in total denial about the glaringly obvious benefits of drugs. They maintain the lie that psychoactive drugs can only be proven effective by looking under a microscope, whereas the proof of such efficacy is right in front of them: in endless anecdotes, in human history, and even in psychological common sense, the kind of common sense that scientists ignore in the name of both drug war ideology and the inhumane philosophy of behaviorism.

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  • How the Drug War Turns the Withdrawal Process into a Morality Tale
  • In the Realm of Hungry Drug Warriors
  • Introduction to the Drug War Philosopher Website at AbolishTheDEA.com
  • Modern Addiction Treatment as Puritan Indoctrination
  • Night of the Addicted Americans
  • Open Letter to Addiction Specialist Gabor Mate
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  • Public Service Announcements for the Post-Drug War Era
  • Replacing Psychiatry with Pharmacologically Savvy Shamanism
  • Sherlock Holmes versus Gabor Maté
  • Tapering for Jesus
  • The aesthetic difference between addiction and chemical dependency
  • The Myth of the Addictive Personality
  • Why Louis Theroux is Clueless about Addiction and Alcoholism

    • Getting Off Drugs






    NOVEMBER 2024

    I have written dozens of essays about antidepressants and the Drug War, but it is important to read this one first, for it contains the most up-to-date info on my battle to get off such drugs. This reading order is important because I declared premature victory against the SNRI called Effexor in recent essays, only to discover that the drug is far more insidious than I gave it credit for. It turns out withdrawing, at least for me, eventually led to deep feelings of abject despair, far greater than the depression for which I started taking the "med" in the first place.

    The frustrating thing is, these feelings could be combatted by a host of drugs that we have outlawed in the name of our anti-scientific and anti-patient war on drugs. That much is just psychological common sense. But we have been taught to believe that there are no positive uses for opium, nor for cocaine, nor for coca, nor for MDMA, nor for laughing gas, nor for peyote, nor for the hundreds of inspiring phenethylamines synthesized by Alexander Shulgin, etc. etc. etc.

    The truth is, rather, that Drug Warriors (and the millions whom they have brainwashed) do not WANT there to be positive uses for such drugs. No, they want me to "keep taking my meds" instead and so to enrich their investment portfolios in the pharmaceutical sector. Meanwhile, those without a vested financial interest have been taught that antidepressants are "scientific" and so they cannot understand my desire to get off them. They cannot understand the hell of being turned into a patient for life and having to make regular expensive and humiliating pilgrimages to psychiatrists (who are half one's own age) to bare one's soul for the purpose of obtaining an expensive prescription for a drug that numbs one's brain rather than inspiring it - and a drug which seems to counteract, dampen and/or repress most of the positive effects that I might have otherwise obtained by the few semi-legal alternatives to antidepressants, such as psilocybin and ayahuasca.

    But it is just psychological common sense that I could withdraw successfully from Effexor with the advised use of a comprehensive pharmacy, including but not limited to the demonized substances listed above. But materialist science is not interested in common sense. And so they tell me that such drug use has not been proven to "work." But materialist doctors are not experts in what motivates me as a living, breathing, unique individual. The heart has its own reasons that reductionist science cannot understand. If I could look forward, at this moment, to relaxing with an opium pipe tonight, my mood would improve NOW, not just tonight. I would have something to look forward to. I would not feel the need to reach for that bottle full of Effexor pills that I was hoping to foreswear. Likewise, if I could use a drug to laugh and "touch the hand of God" (as with laughing gas and phenethylamines respectively), I could laugh at the pangs of despair that Effexor tries to throw my way.

    Science's eternal response to such ideas is: "There is no proof that such things work!"

    No, nor will there ever be in the age of the Drug War, in which such common sense use is punished by long jail terms and would never be favorably publicized, even if successful, since America's prime imperative in the age of the Drug War is to demonize psychoactive medicines, under the absurd assumption-laden idea that to talk honestly about drugs is to encourage their use.

    Well, we SHOULD be encouraging their use in cases where they actually work, in cases, for instance, when they prevent guys like myself from killing themselves thanks to the knowledge that they are a bounden slave to the combined forces of the Drug War and Big Pharma's pill mill.

    Besides, there is no proof that hugging works, but we do not need Dr. Spock of Star Trek to launch a study into that issue: we all know that hugging works by bringing two souls together both physically and spiritually. We do not need a map of brain chemistry to figure this out: the proof is extant, the proof is in the pudding.

    But I haven't given up yet despite the setback in my most recent plan. I'm going to search the world for a place where I can get off antidepressants in a way that makes some psychological common sense.

    Right now, all I see in terms of resources are a bunch of companies who, for large fees, will help me go cold turkey on antidepressants., or companies that claim to have found the right combination of legal herbal formulas that should make withdrawal easier. But to me, these are all what Percy Shelley would call "frail spells," concocted under the watchful eye of the Drug Warrior to make sure that nothing potent and obviously effective will get added to the mix. In fact, if a space alien came to earth and asked what sort of psychoactive drugs were outlawed, one could honestly answer: "Anything that obviously works."

    Meanwhile, drug laws make it impossible for me to visit psychiatrists remotely online, requiring me instead to physically visit my doctors, thereby limiting rural residents like myself to accessing hayseed psychiatrists whose one area of expertise seems to be the writing of prescriptions for antidepressants. Talk to them about anything else, and their eyes glaze over. "That's all unproven," they'll say, "Or, no, we have yet to fully study such things." As if we have to study in order to realize that feeling good helps and can have positive psychological effects.

    I'm sure that part of the problem with my withdrawal scheme is that I tried to get off the drug too quickly. But I only tried that because I can find no doctor who will compound the drug for me in a way that makes psychological common sense, namely, with daily miniscule reductions in dosage. My current psychiatrist told me that such compounding was unheard of and that I should drop doses by 37.5 mg at a time, since that is the lowest dose that the pharmaceutical companies create. He said I could start "counting pill beads" once I am down to a 37.5 mg daily dose if I wanted to taper still further.

    Count pill beads? Surely that's why compounding pharmacists exist: to count pill beads. (UPDATE: I was wrong about this. See my article on "Tapering for Jesus.")

    I did find a compounding company that said it could compound Effexor in the way that I desire. But there's a big catch: they have to receive a prescription for that purpose. And I can find no doctor in the world who is willing to write me one. Even those who sympathize with my plight want me to become their full-time patient before they will even consider writing such a prescription.

    So those who warned me against trying to get off Effexor were right in a way: it is extraordinarily difficult. But they feel to realize WHY this is so. It is not just because Effexor is a toxic drug, but also because the drug war has outlawed everything that could help me get off it.

    This is why those pundits who sign off on the psychiatric pill mill are clueless about the huge problem with the war on drugs: the way it humiliates and disempowers millions. For it turns out that the phrase "No hope in dope" is true after all, but only when the dope in question is modern antidepressants.



    OCTOBER 2024

    Here are some of the many articles I have written about the philosophy of getting off drugs. Bear in mind that I am in the process of getting off Effexor myself and am exploring the power of "drugs to fight drugs" in so doing. And this is not a straightforward path given the sweeping limits that are imposed by drug law. So the question of exactly what might work (and how and when, etc.) is still wide open and I am advocating nothing, except the common sense notion that we can benefit from euphoria and mood boosts, yes, and that "drugs can be used to fight drugs," and in a safe way too -- a way that will prove far safer than prohibition, which continues to bring about daily deaths from drive-by shootings and unregulated product while causing civil wars overseas.

    I guess what I am saying here is, this site is not purporting to offer medical advice. I avoid using such wording, however, because so many authors refuse to talk honestly about drugs, especially about positive drug use, for fear of being seen as giving medical advice, and this, of course, is just how drug warriors want matters to remain. It lets them shut down free speech about drugs.

    Besides, I reject the idea that materialist doctors are the experts when it comes to how we think and feel about life. The best they can do as materialist is to tell us the potential physical risks of using holistically-operating drugs, but individuals are the experts on what motivates them in life, on their own particular hopes and dreams and on what risks they deem necessary to obtain them, to pursue happiness, that is, which objective our legislators outlawed when they outlawed all substances that can help facilitate happiness in the properly motivated and educated individual.

    The real answer is not for authors to give groveling apologies for being honest, however: the real answer is for kids to be educated about the basics of wise substance use -- and for America to come to grips with the fact that we will always be surrounded by "drugs" -- and that the goal should be to ensure safe use, not to keep endlessly arresting minorities and removing them from the voting rolls on behalf of the clinically insane idea that we should outlaw mother nature to protect our kids -- and this in a purportedly Christian country whose very deity told us that his creation was good.

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  • Drug Use as Self-Medication
  • Fighting Drugs with Drugs
  • Getting off antidepressants in the age of the drug war
  • Getting off Effexor MY WAY
  • How materialists turned me into a patient for life
  • How Psychiatry and the Drug War turned me into an eternal patient
  • How the Drug War turned me into an eternal patient
  • How the Drug War Turns the Withdrawal Process into a Morality Tale
  • I'll See Your Antidepressants and Raise You One Huachuma Cactus
  • In the Realm of Hungry Drug Warriors
  • Introduction to the Drug War Philosopher Website at AbolishTheDEA.com
  • Mad at Mad in America
  • My Realistic Plan for Getting off of Big Pharma Drugs and why it's so hard to implement
  • Open Letter to Addiction Specialist Gabor Mate
  • Open Letter to Erica Zelfand
  • Psychiatrists Tell Me That It's Wrong to Criticize Antidepressants
  • Replacing 12-Step Programs with Shamanic Healing
  • Replacing antidepressants with entheogens
  • Sending Out an SOS
  • Speaking Truth to Big Pharma
  • Surviving the Surviving Antidepressants website
  • Taper Talk
  • Tapering for Jesus
  • The common sense way to get off of antidepressants
  • The Crucial Connection Between Antidepressants and the War on Drugs
  • The Depressing Truth About SSRIs
  • The Mental Health Survey that psychiatrists don't want you to take
  • The real reason for depression in America
  • The War on Drugs and the Psychiatric Pill Mill
  • This is your brain on Effexor
  • Using plants and fungi to get off of antidepressants
  • What the psychiatrist said when I told him I wanted to get off Effexor
  • Why SSRIs are Crap




    • Notes:

    1 This is what my own psychiatrist told me several years ago. It was our last meeting. Circumstances have since suggested that he was fired for his candor on that subject. (up)


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