While effective ways to prevent withdrawal symptoms from psychiatric drugs remain unclear,
a highly accepted clinical approach for treatment discontinuation is to gradually reduce …

For nurses in clinical practice, understanding the pharmacology of drugs their patients take
is relevant to understanding their therapeutic uses, side effect profiles, and adverse …

Slower tapering of antipsychotics may provide time for adaptations made to the presence of
the medications to resolve, thus reducing the disruption to homeostatic equilibrium caused …

Pharmacotherapy is an effective treatment modality across psychiatric disorders.
Nevertheless, many patients discontinue their medication at some point. Evidence-based …

Background: Stopping antidepressants is often difficult due to withdrawal. Taperingstrips
were developed to facilitate antidepressant discontinuation according to the recently …

Abstract Background and Objective: Methods and justifications for discontinuing
psychotropic drugs in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and RCTs' acknowledgement of …

Coming off psychotropic drugs can cause physical as well as mental withdrawal, resulting in
failed withdrawal attempts and unnecessary long-term drug use. The first reports about …

There has been a rapid increase in the use of polypharmacy in psychiatry possibly due to
the introduction of newer drugs, greater availability of these newer drugs, excessive …

When first published in 1999, Your Drug May Be Your Problem was ahead of its time. The
only book to provide an uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind …

There is evidence that many individuals are on higher doses of antipsychotic drug than is
required for optimal functioning yet there are limited guidelines on how to reduce them. This …