In this section
- Step 10- Get Informed About Your Psychiatric Drug
- Step 11- Ensuring that a Drug is Relatively ‘Taper-friendly’
- Step 12- Interactions, Reactions and Sensitivities
- Step 13- Taper Rates
- Step 14- Taper Schedules
- Step 15- Taper Methods
- Step 16- Preparatory Decisions
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Step 17- Gather the Gear
- Adapter Caps
- Bead-counting Surface
- Counting Implement
- Digital Scale
- Empty Capsules
- Graduated Cylinders and Pipettes
- Jars
- Labels and Pen/marker
- Measuring Bowl or Tray
- Mortar and Pestle
- Pharmaceutical-grade Powder Filler
- Pill Bottles
- Pill Organizer
- Refrigerator and/or Cooler Bag
- Slip Tip Syringes
- Transferring Implements
- Step 18- Essential Skills
- Step 19- Setting Up a Taper Journal
- Step 20- Implementing a Taper
Step 17- Gather the Gear
Why this step is important
Learn about the needed gear and how to obtain it.
Getting oriented
It may be helpful to do a full read-through of both the ‘Gear Checklist’ for your chosen taper method below and the skills for your particular gear in Step 18 before setting out to obtain equipment, since your preferences may become clearer after you have a strong sense of exactly how you’ll be using your gear.
Gear for making a liquid mixture using immediate-release tablets or capsules
Click here to go to Step 18 and review the skills that are essential to learn for working with this gear.
Gear for using a digital scale to weigh a crushed, immediate-release tablet or the contents of a capsule
Click here to go to Step 18 and review the skills that are essential to learn for working with this gear.
Gear for using a compounding pharmacy to obtain capsules and/or liquid
Click here to go to Step 18 and review the skills that are essential to learn for working with this gear.
Gear for counting beads from a beaded capsule
Click here to go to Step 18 and review the skills that are essential to learn for working with this gear.
Gear for using a manufacturer’s oral liquid
Click here to go to Step 18 and review the skills that are essential to learn for working with this gear.
For explanations, further details, and tips from the layperson withdrawal community, click on any of these items in your chosen method's gear list above, or in our A to Z Gear List in the sidebar menu.