How to reduce and stop psychiatric medication How to reduce and stop psychiatric medication
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2022 Feb:55:4-7. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2021.10.001. Epub …

Despite the fact that today most of the patients with psychological disturbances assume
some form of psychotropic drug treatment, clinical psychologists may have little familiarity …

The psychopharmacology of major psychiatric disorders involves the principle of optimal
treatment, which includes appropriate drug selection, correct dosing, recognition and …

One of the great conundrums in modern medicine is how to target medicines so that they
exert the maximum benefits in assisting the body to recover fully and stably from illnesses …

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 …

Objective Drugs can be divided into two major categories, symptomatic and disease
modifying. This review explores whether and how psychiatric drugs fall into one or the other …

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the number of people using
psychiatric drugs in the United States increased from 21 million in 1997 to 32.6 million in …

The psychoactive effects of psychiatric medications have been obscured by the presumption
that these medications have disease-specific actions. Exploiting the parallels with the …

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

In this paper, I argue that the problems that occur after discontinuation or reduction of long-
term psychiatric drug treatment may be caused by the process of drug withdrawal itself …