Tourist - if you do search on pprune you should find posts by Nick Lappos about this - it is also referred to as windmill brake state.
So yes - fully lowering the lever will get you out of VRS but you need lots of height and the Nr will increase as the RoD flow increases through the rotor.
Thanks crab, lots of interesting links to look through there, but unfortunately most of the interesting stuff Nick Lappos links too are so old they don't work.