The guidance urges supervised tapering when drugs are no longer necessary or effective, citing weak evidence on when to stop treatment and limited training for doctors in ending prescriptions.
The effort comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes to curb psychiatric medication use, with HHS set to hold summer panels focused on SSRI deprescribing.
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With new guidelines to stop psychiatric drugs, how will doctors distinguish withdrawal from true relapse?
Beyond stopping pills, could new metabolic and psychedelic therapies revolutionize mental healthcare entirely?