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Stephen Stahl and Jeffrey Strawn: Deprescribing as a core competency in psychiatry
Stephen Stahl and Jeffrey Strawn: Deprescribing as a core competency in psychiatry
Stahl’s Deprescriber’s Guide, a recent book by prominent psychopharmacologist Stephen Stahl, MD, PhD, and Jeffrey Strawn, MD, presents deprescribing as a core competency in psychiatry.
Why I founded the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council
Antidepressants, benzodiazepines, sleep drugs, antipsychotics, stimulants, opioids -- medical education has not prepared clinicians for this flood of drugs or their attendant risks. I founded the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council to…
How consultant pharmacist Dr. DeLon Canterbury helps patients safely go off psychotropic drugs
DeLon Canterbury, PharmD, BCGP, a pharmacist with a private deprescribing practice, discusses how he helps patients design a taper schedule and technical aspects of customized psychotropic dosing. He also reviews…
Hyperbolic Tapering Tips: Enablers and Barriers, with Mark Horowitz, MBBS PhD
Psychiatric researcher and clinician Mark Horowitz, MBBS, PhD, originator of the Horowitz-Taylor method for hyperbolic tapering of psychotropics and lead author of the 2024 Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines for Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines,…
Bridging to Recovery While Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs, with Anders Sørensen, PhD
When psychiatric drug treatment comes to an end, how may a clinician minimize the risk of withdrawal or relapse while deprescribing? In this webinar presented by the Psychotropic Deprescribing Council,…
The Therapist’s Role in the Psychotropic Deprescribing Process,with Dr. Anne Guy and Angela Peacock, MSW
The Psychotropic Deprescribing Council is pleased to announce a virtual roundtable about the role of therapists in the deprescribing of psychiatric and other psychotropic drugs. Dr. Anne Guy (PsychD), UKCP…
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