Current strategies for tapering psychiatric drugs: differing recommendations, impractical doses, and other barriers

JK Eserian, VP Blanco, LP Mercuri… - Psychiatry …, 2023 - Elsevier
While effective ways to prevent withdrawal symptoms from psychiatric drugs remain unclear,
a highly accepted clinical approach for treatment discontinuation is to gradually reduce …

Acceptability and optimisation of resources to support antidepressant cessation: a qualitative think-aloud study with patients in Australian primary care

S McDonald, K Wallis, M Horowitz, E Mann, V Le… - British Journal of …, 2024 - bjgp.org
Background Stopping long-term (> 12 months) antidepressant use can be difficult due to
unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Many people do not recognise withdrawal symptoms or …

Understanding Australian general practice patients' decisions to deprescribe antidepressants in the WiserAD trial: a realist informed approach

A Coe, J Gunn, Z Allnutt, C Kaylor-Hughes - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate how an approach to antidepressant deprescribing works, for whom,
and in what contexts by (1) examining the experiences and perceptions of the approach for …

Family Physicians Can/Should Do: What? Where? And How?

MA Bowman, DA Seehusen… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - Am Board Family Med
This issue's teasers: A broad scope of care by family physicians could be incentivized and
has positive outcomes. Family physicians could do more dermoscopy—a mixed specialty …

[CITATION][C] Acceptability and optimisation of resources to support antidepressant cessation

S McDonald, K Wallis, M Horowitz, E Mann, V Le… - europepmc.org
Background Stopping long-term (> 12 months) antidepressant use can be difficult due to
unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Many people do not recognise withdrawal symptoms or …