Nicole Lamberson is a Tapering Consultant based in Virginia with over a decade of dedicated service to the psychiatric drug withdrawal community. At TaperClinic, she leads group sessions focused on tapering education, peer support, and navigating complex psychiatric drug tapers. She also provides one-on-one support and personalized taper planning, drawing from her clinical background as a physician assistant and her own lived experience with protracted withdrawal. Nicole is known for bridging the gap between medical knowledge and survivor insight—offering practical, empathetic guidance grounded in real-world experience.
Nicole’s journey into this work began after earning a BS from James Madison University (2000) and completing her Master of Physician Assistant degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School (2004). Not long after entering clinical practice, she was prescribed Xanax. Tolerance and interdose withdrawal were misdiagnosed, leading to a cascade of psychiatric polypharmacy—including two benzodiazepines, a Z-drug, antidepressants, a stimulant, and an antipsychotic. In 2010, she was subjected to a rapid withdrawal in a detox facility, resulting in a severe and protracted withdrawal syndrome.
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