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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 ...
Apr 14, 2024 · Dr Mark Horowitz (pictured) is lead author on The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, a clinical handbook designed for healthcare professionals to help patients to safely stop using antidepressants The authors of The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines both have personal experience of the problems of withdrawal from antidepressants – the most widely prescribed psychiatric medication both in the ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Guidelines now recommend that after long-term use, antidepressants should be reduced in slow stages (tapering) over months and sometimes years down to very low doses. As these doses are much smaller than can be made with widely available tablets, the guidelines call for the use of liquid versions of drugs (specially made up smaller dose tablets are another option).
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.
Oct 7, 2022 · Horowitz calls the critiques of him and his coauthor "a quite ridiculous framing," citing leading independent experts and a UK government department, among others, who back his peer-reviewed ...
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Dr Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist, having done part of his training in Australia and now working in London as a Clinical Research Fellow in the NHS...
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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 ...
