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    Tag: Antidepressants

    Doctors clash over JAMA review of antidepressant withdrawal risks

    July 16, 2025

    Psychiatry researchers claim the risks of antidepressant withdrawal are overblown after their JAMA Psychiatry study concluded the average patient did not have clinically significant symptoms.…

    A GP guide to hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

    May 31, 2025

    Need to know: The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are a group of 14 heritable connective tissue disorders (HCTDs).1 Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), previously known as type…

    Professor Katharine Wallis, University of Queensland.

    RACGP endorses drug-specific tapering plans for 15 antidepressants

    May 7, 2025

    A set of drug-specific antidepressant deprescribing guidelines targeting a “poorly understood” area of clinical practice has received RACGP endorsement. Developed by University of Queensland researchers,…

    Antidepressant scripts for kids: ‘We don’t have enough resources and services are scarce’

    April 24, 2025

    Social media and the cost of living are adding to the childhood mental health burden and the resultant rise in antidepressant prescribing, a child psychiatrist…

    GPs need ‘prompt and complete’ discharge summaries: coroner

    February 28, 2025

    A coroner has again flagged the importance of discharge summaries being “promptly communicated” to GPs following the death of a patient from prescription drug toxicity.…

    Professor Katharine Wallis, University of Queensland.

    Antidepressant withdrawal or depression relapse? Here’s what I want GPs to know

    February 12, 2025

    There is increasing evidence that antidepressant withdrawal symptoms (or ‘discontinuation’ symptoms) are common and can be severe and long-lasting. Yet in the past, these symptoms…

    A GP guide to mental health in aged care

    February 1, 2025

    Need to know: The number of Australians living in residential aged care continues to grow. In June 2022, 178,000 people aged 65 and older were…

    Dr Cathy Andronis

    Benefits of antidepressants ‘unclear’ for chronic pain in older patients: Aussie study

    September 26, 2024

    Antidepressants are widely prescribed to patients aged 65 and older for chronic pain but there is little evidence of benefits, Australian researchers say. Their meta-analysis…

    RACGP officially endorses Aussie doctor’s antidepressant deprescribing guidelines

    August 1, 2024

    New deprescribing guidelines from an Australian-born doctor who battled antidepressant withdrawal symptoms have become the latest RACGP-backed clinical resource. Dr Mark Horowitz published The Maudsley…

    Professor Katharine Wallis, University of Queensland.

    ‘These drugs are not harmless’: The Aussies tackling antidepressant deprescribing

    July 15, 2024

    “Antidepressants are a whole lot easier to start than they are to stop.” Professor Katharine Wallis, believes that, where existing guidelines are followed, can change…

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