Treatment · United States
Top psychiatrists call for greater focus on ceasing psychiatric medication
Recommendations in JAMA Network Open and the British Journal of Psychiatry call out structural overprescribing pressures.
The New York Times covers new recommendations from psychiatric leaders calling for greater clinical and research focus on how, when, and whether to stop psychiatric medication — a long-neglected counterpart to the dominant 'starting' literature.
The recommendations identify structural pressures inside health systems that make stopping medication harder than starting it.
Read the full New York Times report for the recommendations and clinician interviews.
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