Tue.Apr 09, 2024

article thumbnail

Tapering Strips: A Practical Tool for Personalised and Safe Tapering of Withdrawal-Causing Prescription Drugs

Mad in America

T hanks to excellent work of Mark Horowitz and David Taylor we now have the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines for Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids, and Z-drugs. I consider this very good news for all who want to taper withdrawal-causing prescription drugs safely, and for all who want to help them as best as they can. The new guidance offers strong and comprehensive support and will aid development of new guidelines and will help to improve existing ones.

article thumbnail

Hard of Hearing by Francis Fernandes

Mad in America

I kept telling her that Carsten Dahl is not Carson Dyle for the obvious reason the former doodles Danish bebop on the piano with a sort of Gouldian passion for counterpoint, whereas the latter is a character played by Walter Matthau, whose fervor is fuelled by revenge, avarice and triangle-cut sandwiches, in that wild caper of a movie called Charade.

78