Tag: hyperbolic tapering
When Stopping Prescription Drugs Is Hard: Alicia Martin and the TaperMate...
Alicia Martin is an Australian community pharmacist and the creator of an ingenious mobile app, TaperMate, which aims to help people with hyperbolic drug tapering and prescribed drug withdrawal.
A Mother’s Journey Through Psychiatric Drug Harm and Healing
Chelsea McVeigh joins us to discuss her journey through antidepressant withdrawal. At 31, during a new pregnancy, she suffered a severe adverse reaction that turned her world upside down.
Antidepressant “Maintenance Treatment” Not Required: Slow Tapering with Support Works
Questions remain about best practices for discontinuation strategies, and the distinction between relapse and withdrawal was not defined.
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark...
Tapering should be tailored and adjusted to the patient, slowed and more hyperbolic in people who have severe and longstanding reactions.
Prescribers Often Fail to Support Patients Discontinuing Antidepressants, Study Finds
Study reveals most patients are dissatisfied with prescribers' support when discontinuing antidepressants.
Anders Sørensen – Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in...
Anders Sørenson is a Danish clinical psychologist with a special interest in psychiatric drug withdrawal. He has undertaken research which assesses the state of guidance on psychiatric drug withdrawal and paid close attention to tapering methods with the aim of identifying approaches which might make withdrawal more tolerable for people.
