Tapering medication is NOT a one-size-fits all solution! On the contrary. Tapering medication (tapering strips, stabilisation strips) was developed to enable physicians to flexibly prescribe and adapt personalised, hyperbolic, responsible and safe tapering schedules to patients based on shared decision making and proper (self)monitoring. See this blog of Jim van Os on http://www.psychosisnet.com:
One of the mechanisms to quiet unwelcome voices is to reject them using arguments like this: “Unfortunately, because of the many submissions we receive and our space limitations in the Letters section, we are unable to publish your letter . . . “. MIA, August 1, 2019: “Helping People Come Off Medication – Bad for Business?” https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/08/helping-people-come-off-medication-bad-business/
Tapering strips can be obtained upon prescription of a certified doctor/prescriber. See http://www.taperingstrip.org
One of the strategies mentioned in the review is the use of tapering strips. Tapering strips provide patients and doctors with a practical tool for flexible and personalised tapering and (self)monitoring.
More information about this can be found in the MIA article ‘Service-User Knowledge Helps Researchers Develop Psychiatric Drug Tapering Approaches’
or in the review ‘How user knowledge of psychotropic drug withdrawal resulted in the development of person-specific tapering medication’.
These articles and additional information about using and prescribing tapering strips can be found here:
Tapering medication is NOT a one-size-fits all solution! On the contrary. Tapering medication (tapering strips, stabilisation strips) was developed to enable physicians to flexibly prescribe and adapt personalised, hyperbolic, responsible and safe tapering schedules to patients based on shared decision making and proper (self)monitoring. See this blog of Jim van Os on http://www.psychosisnet.com:
Tips for tapering off your medication.
https://www.psychosisnet.com/medication/quitting-medication/tips-for-tapering-off-your-medication/
In Dutch on http://www.psychosenet.nl:
Tips voor het afbouwen van medicatie.
https://www.psychosenet.nl/medicatie/medicatie-afbouwen/tips-voor-het-afbouwen-van-medicatie/
One of the mechanisms to quiet unwelcome voices is to reject them using arguments like this: “Unfortunately, because of the many submissions we receive and our space limitations in the Letters section, we are unable to publish your letter . . . “. MIA, August 1, 2019: “Helping People Come Off Medication – Bad for Business?”
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/08/helping-people-come-off-medication-bad-business/
Cheaper treatment options seems to be not wellcome, even when they are way better for patients. I wrote about this in my blog for MIA of August 1, 2019: “Helping People Come Off Medication – Bad for Business?”
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/08/helping-people-come-off-medication-bad-business/
Tapering strips can be obtained upon prescription of a certified doctor/prescriber. See http://www.taperingstrip.org
One of the strategies mentioned in the review is the use of tapering strips. Tapering strips provide patients and doctors with a practical tool for flexible and personalised tapering and (self)monitoring.
More information about this can be found in the MIA article ‘Service-User Knowledge Helps Researchers Develop Psychiatric Drug Tapering Approaches’
or in the review ‘How user knowledge of psychotropic drug withdrawal resulted in the development of person-specific tapering medication’.
These articles and additional information about using and prescribing tapering strips can be found here:
– https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/07/service-user-knowledge-helps-researchers-develop-psychiatric-drug-tapering-approaches/
– https://doi.org/10.1177/2045125320932452
– http://www.taperingstrip.org