Dunedin clinic leads movement to help patients safely stop antidepressants
A Dunedin clinic is helping long-term antidepressant users discontinue medications as part of a growing deprescribing movement.
A growing movement is challenging how antidepressants are prescribed and stopped, with long-term users sometimes experiencing withdrawal effects such as brain zaps when discontinuing. A Dunedin clinic is helping patients navigate the process of weaning off antidepressants. The clinic's work reflects increasing attention to deprescribing and more careful medication management.
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Deprescribing: The long road off antidepressants
A growing movement is challenging how antidepressants are prescribed and stopped.
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The Dunedin clinic helping wean patients off antidepressants
Brain zaps are just one of the sensations some long-term users can experience when they discontinue antidepressants.