Antidepressant tapering strips to help people come off medication more safely

PC Groot, J van Os - Psychosis, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Antidepressants are commonly prescribed for many mental disorders, including psychosis.
Withdrawal effects, resulting from inappropriately short duration of tapering or lack of …

Successful use of tapering strips for hyperbolic reduction of antidepressant dose: a cohort study

PC Groot, J van Os - Therapeutic advances in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Tapering strips facilitate antidepressant discontinuation, allowing for
personalised titration of discontinuation to the intensity of withdrawal. A tapering strip …

Taperingstrips for paroxetine and venlafaxine

PC Groot - Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie, 2013 - europepmc.org
Background Tapering strips can be used for the gradual reduction of the dose of certain
types of drugs such as antidepressants and benzodiazepines. The strips contain a slightly …

Outcome of antidepressant drug discontinuation with taperingstrips after 1–5 years

PC Groot, J van Os - Therapeutic advances in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Stopping antidepressants is often difficult due to withdrawal. Taperingstrips
were developed to facilitate antidepressant discontinuation according to the recently …

Strategies to reduce use of antidepressants

T Kendrick - British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Antidepressant prescribing has increased year on year since the introduction of the selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in the 1980s. More than 10% of adults in England are …

Tapering antidepressants: is 3 months slow enough?

J Phelps - Medical Hypotheses, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Antidepressants are used by 10% of the US population. Amongst these
users, most will stop their antidepressant at some point, and about half–over a million …

Outcomes of hyperbolic tapering of antidepressants

J van Os, PC Groot - Therapeutic advances in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In patients attempting to discontinue their antidepressant medication, there
have been no prospective studies on patterns of withdrawal as a function of the rate of …

Clinical practice guideline recommendations on tapering and discontinuing antidepressants for depression: a systematic review

A Sørensen, K Juhl Jørgensen… - Therapeutic advances …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Tapering and discontinuing antidepressants are important aspects of the
management of patients with depression and should therefore be considered in clinical …

How user knowledge of psychotropic drug withdrawal resulted in the development of person-specific tapering medication

PC Groot, J van Os - Therapeutic advances in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Designing withdrawal support services for antidepressant users: patients' views on existing services and what they really need

J Read, J Moncrieff, MA Horowitz - Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Public Health England has recommended that services be put in place
to support people who choose to withdraw from antidepressants because of a current gap …