Commentary: Why I founded the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council | Read Now

“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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