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Hi! Jim Phelps here with the Quick Takes review of recent research for the Psychopharmacology Institute.
Let’s start with the study of antidepressant discontinuation. What do you tell patients about stopping an antidepressant? What would you say is the percentage of patients who are going to have trouble and go through withdrawal when they do stop? And how severe can that withdrawal be? How long does it go on? What steps can you take to minimize these problems?
An explicit consideration of all of these questions is basically thrust upon us by a recent New York Times article entitled, “Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit.” If you haven’t seen that article, which is written by Benedict Carey, you may want to take a look at it because it really puts the pressure on us in the field of psychiatry to respond responsibly to this assertion that many people
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