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Jun 19, 2023 · Now Dr Horowitz runs England's only NHS antidepressant deprescribing clinic - a pilot scheme set up in London in 2021 to help people struggling to stop taking their medication. At the moment he is ...
Mar 6, 2019 · 2011 - started Venlafaxine (again) at 75mg Raised to 150 mg at some point - unsure of dates. Reduced back down to 75 mg. Doctor advised this would be a lifetime, maintenance dose
Mar 23, 2021 · Dr Horowitz said: “In clinical practice, I often see patients perking up when they reduce their antipsychotic medication and telling me that they ‘feel more themselves.’ It is also true that some people get worse when their drugs are reduced. What we need is more research to work out who benefits and who doesn’t.
Sep 30, 2021 · Dr. Horowitz offers a valid critique of this discontinuation trial—that is, the confounding of illness relapse with antidepressant withdrawal symptoms. Of the four antidepressants involved in the study by Lewis and Colleagues, fluoxetine and mirtazapine carry a lower risk of withdrawal symptoms upon abrupt discontinuation than sertraline and citalopram.[1]
Jul 31, 2024 · Horowitz is now a clinical research fellow in psychiatry with the National Health Service. He said current guidance lacked detail about how slowly to reduce doses, how reduced doses may differ depending on the type of antidepressant, and how to advise patients to take doses smaller than those produced by the manufacturer.
Eszopiclone (Lunesta) Zopiclone (Imovane, Zimovane) Zolpidem (Ambien) Fluoxetine (Prozac) Amitriptyline (Elavil, Endep) And many other antidepressants, benzodiazepines and z-drugs. I am a training psychiatrist, having done part of my training in Australia and now working in London as a Clinical Research Fellow in the NHS and an Honorary ...
Mar 24, 2021 · Paper on how to stop antipsychotic drugs is ‘historic breakthrough’. Posted on 24/03/2021. A method for tapering antipsychotic treatment which may minimise risk of relapse by Dr Mark Horowitz of University College London has been released by the group which developed guidelines on how to stop antidepressants safely. PRESS RELEASE IS BELOW….
