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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs

Authored by Mark Horowitz, and David M. Taylor, the world’s first antidepressants deprescribing guidelines for psychiatry are now available. The publishers say: “Comprehensive resource describing guidelines for safely reducing or stopping (deprescribing) antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs for patients, including step-by-step guidance…
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Experts call for fewer antidepressants to be prescribed in UK

“Open letter to government from experts and politicians says rising usage ‘is a clear example of over-medicalisation’” This report by Tobi Thomas has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “Medical experts and politicians have called for the amount of antidepressants…
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What I have learnt from helping thousands of people taper off antidepressants and other psychotropic medications

Adele Framer has written an article for the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. The abstract says: “Although psychiatric drug withdrawal syndromes have been recognized since the 1950s – recent studies confirm antidepressant withdrawal syndrome incidence upwards of 40% – medical information…
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