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 …

Antidepressants are commonly prescribed for many mental disorders, including psychosis.
Withdrawal effects, resulting from inappropriately short duration of tapering or lack of …

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

Background: Tapering strips facilitate antidepressant discontinuation, allowing for
personalised titration of discontinuation to the intensity of withdrawal. A tapering strip …

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 …

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 …

Introduction: When antidepressants are discontinued, severe withdrawal symptoms are
possible. Some patients have few or no problems stopping, whereas others struggle. That …

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 …

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

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 …