Research & Information

A collection of research papers and articles relating to psychiatric drug withdrawal.

 

Public Health England’s Evidence Review into Dependence and withdrawal associated with some prescribed medicines https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/940255/PHE_PMR_report_Dec2020.pdf

What psychiatric drugs do by class. J Moncrieff  T Stockmann (2019) Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs  A Guy J Davies R Rizq https://prescribeddrug.info/

An Analysis of Four Current UK Service Models for Prescribed Medication Withdrawal Support (All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence. A Guy J Davies October 2018) http://prescribeddrug.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/APPG-Service-Model-Report.pdf

The costs incurred by the NHS in England due to the unnecessary prescribing of dependency-forming medications J Davies RE Cooper J Moncrieff  L Montagu T Rae M Parhi Journal of Addictive Behaviours (February 2022 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460321003282

Cooper, R. E., Ashman, M., Lomani, J., Moncrieff, J., Guy, A., Davies, J., Morant, N., Horowitz, M. (2023). “Stabilise-reduce, stabilise-reduce”: A survey of the common practices of deprescribing services and recommendations for future services. PLoS ONE, 18(3) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282988

Read, J., Moncrieff, J., Horowitz, M. A. (2023) Designing withdrawal support services for antidepressant users: Patients views on existing services and what they really need. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 161, 298-306.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.03.013

Papers & articles on Antidepressants

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