“Training programs should give deprescribing psychiatric drugs even more attention than prescribing because deprescribing requires more skill.”
ALLEN FRANCES, MD
PROFESSOR AND CHAIRMAN EMERITUS, DUKE UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRY, AND FORMER HEAD OF THE DSM-IV COMMITTEE
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The mission of The Psychotropic Deprescribing Council is to research and impart best practices in rational psychotropic deprescribing, improving patient safety and outcomes throughout medicine—in mental health care, pain management, and beyond.
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