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Discontinuing medication as a phase of treatment
Author(s) -
Sadeghi Leila
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30216
Subject(s) - discontinuation , psychotropic medication , medicine , alternative medicine , psychiatry , child and adolescent psychiatry , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pediatrics , psychology , mental health , pathology
There is a paucity of research on medication de‐prescribing. Currently, the field of child psychiatry offers more evidence on how to start children and adolescents on medication than on how long to treat them, and how to best discontinue the medication. Evidence‐based and clinically rooted treatment plans for how to discontinue medicine are just as important to develop as effective treatment plans in how to start medicine. This article serves to provide some guiding principles in the appropriate and safe discontinuation of psychotropic medicines for children and adolescents.