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

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 …

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

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

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 The importance of tapering is increasingly recognised when discontinuing
antidepressant medication. However, no previous studies have examined the reporting of …

BACKGROUND: Depression drugs can be difficult to come off due to withdrawal symptoms.
Gradual tapering with tapering support is needed to help patients withdraw safely …

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 …

Although psychiatric drug withdrawal syndromes have been recognized since the 1950s–
recent studies confirm antidepressant withdrawal syndrome incidence upwards of 40 …