Thousands, perhaps millions, of people who try to quit antidepressant drugs experience stinging withdrawal symptoms that last for months to years: insomnia, surges of anxiety,
Antidepressants can save lives. At best, they work. At worst, they are a sticking plaster, hopefully enabling people to hold it all together until they
Coming off antidepressants can take months and doctors must not rush patients into stopping, experts say. Patients benefit from tapering off the drugs over nine
Millions of prescriptions for powerful antipsychotics are handed out each year to treat conditions including insomnia and anxiety, putting patients at risk of severe side-effects
1. Stopping, fast and slow A series of studies conducted by Baldessarini and colleagues has demonstrated that relapse rates are higher for patients who have psychiatric
Researchers have published the first scientific paper looking at how patients can safely come off antipsychotic medication while minimising the risk of withdrawal effects. The
All classes of drug that are prescribed to treat depression are associated with withdrawal syndromes. SSRI withdrawal syndrome occurs often and can be severe, and
Article In Brief New research questions conventional practices regarding rapid withdrawal from selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, which are sometimes
Researchers at King’s College London said formal guidelines for tapering antipsychotics were needed.