Z-drugs – A New Vision for Mental Health

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs

Author: Editorial 24th January 2024 0 Comments

Authored by Mark Horowitz, and David M. Taylor, the world’s first antidepressants deprescribing guidelines for psychiatry are now available. The publishers say: “Comprehensive resource describing guidelines for safely reducing or stopping (deprescribing) antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs for patients, including step-by-step guidance…
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a coherent system

antidepressants, benzodiazepines, books, David M. Taylor, deprescribing, deprescribing guidelines, Gabapentinoids, Mark Horowitz, Z-drugs

‘I lost a decade of my life to prescription drugs’

Author: Editorial 25th November 2019 0 Comments

“The main sufferers of prescription-medication withdrawal are white women over the age of 45. We know how to put people on these drugs, we just don’t know how to get them off.” Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Bangor University….
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collaborative practice, Key posts

addiction, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, David Healy, Miranda Levy, Pregabalin, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Public Health England, The Telegraph, tranquillisers, Z-drugs