Psychotropic Deprescribing Council
@PsychotropicDC
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Advancing responsible psychotropic deprescribing, tapering, and recovery through interdisciplinary medical education. 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Join & donate today!
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Joined August 2024
Please donate today for development of continuing medical education for clinicians. https://t.co/l1t1qpWWwN
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Heartening that 93% of the GPs and other clinicians who attended my lecture on deprescribing in Sydney @CESPHN said they would change practice as a result and 97% would recommend training to colleagues. Now need system to help changes to be practical to implement....
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We need your support in transforming psychotropic deprescribing to ensure every individual receives safe & practical guidance on their path to well-being. Please Donate Today! https://t.co/Ej68QAK5NC
#Saferpractices. #Betteroutcomes. Thank you!
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Old psychotropic medication commercials. Stimulants "Suddenly... life was worth living" "If the individual is depressed" "Stay fit and slim" "When the aged patient is depressed" Sedatives "You prescribe sleep" "Relief comes fast and comfortably" "Life without frenzy" "She
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New Podcast: Anticholinergic Side Effects in Psych Meds @JCPjournal Come learn: 1. Why anticholinergic burden matters 2. Our equivalency scale vs. others 3. Sedation ≠ anticholinergic 4. Antihistamine ≠ anticholinergic 5. Surprising findings + practical tips Thank you JCP for
Don’t forget anticholinergics side effects! Unlike opioids or benzodiazepines, anticholinergics side effects—confusion, sedation, even possible dementia risk—often fly under the radar. There had already been attempts at making anticholinergic risk tables; our new paper improves
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Looking for others who understand psychiatric medication withdrawal or adverse effects? Join our free peer-led support meeting tomorrow. No pressure to speak or turn on your camera, you’re welcome to just listen and be among people who get it. Link in the comments. We hope to see
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Reminder! Now Accepting Applications for the USDeN Grant Catalyst Scholars Program - https://t.co/3ZtLR49tPl
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To mark #MedSafetyWeek, LEAP4PDD (@LEAP4PDD) has published a Yellow Card Reporting Toolkit. If you’ve been harmed by prescribed psych drugs, you can play a vital role in improving safety for future patients simply by spending 10 minutes filing a Yellow Card report. 👇
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Horrifying story from @WSJ "They made her feel as if she were “expected to be numb and emotionless,” she said, rather than acknowledging that sadness is sometimes just part of being human." MS media starting to understand the story better? https://t.co/g8Hrv8rfwm
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One of the saddest things I hear from people who are going through antidepressant withdrawal is “I followed my psychiatrist’s guidance for tapering” - they were doing what their doctor told them to do, yet are still in so much pain and suffering….
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🧵 TI Annual Course - REGISTER NOW! https://t.co/zYTcVmvStb 1/ Featuring expert speakers including TI Co-Director, Dr. Colin Dormuth: "Overlooked challenges in comparing treatment benefits and harms in randomized trials" #DrugEvidence25 #CME #MedEd
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New tool helps seniors reduce unnecessary medications ~ Medsafer could become a new standard of care to address overprescribing in Canada, say co-developers Emily McDonald and Todd Lee. 🔗 https://t.co/kEIaNEX4S9
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As a forensic psychiatrist, I always ask if they put sweetener in their coffee as part of a violence risk assessment… not… sigh. I appreciate the subjectivity in psychiatry, but it invites this sort of silly science.
People with antisocial traits prefer bitter tastes like black coffee.
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Antidepressants have a range of adverse cardiometabolic and physiologic side effects, as seen in a new systematic review of 30 such drugs https://t.co/8VxIzW8JwQ
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Ask Anders! Questions about his book, “Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming and Staying Off Psychiatric Drugs” Time: Oct 24, 2025 Friday, October 24, 5pm GMT; 1pm EST, 12 NOON CST, 10AM PST Join Zoom Here: https://t.co/Gt2lGrr447 Meeting ID: 836 8642 2485 Passcode: 584483
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NO - not prescribing exercise shouldn't be malpractice. I admire Fabiano, Puder, and Stubbs for promoting exercise. However, advocating "if you don't do this intervention, you should get sued" is how we got a 450+% increase in the use of antidepressants from the 80s to now
Our paper was just published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. 🧵1/10
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"About 67% of all antidepressant and antipsychotic treatment episodes in the 700 included patients (mean age = 14.6 years, girls = 67%) were off-label." https://t.co/VXtmXTH2yO
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health - Off-label psychopharmacologic medication use is widespread in child and adolescent psychiatry, but little is known about its associated factors....
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