Medicine's Awais Aftab weighs in on new deprescribing guidelines

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The New York Times: Awais Aftab, professor at the School of Medicine, argued mainstream psychiatry has long underestimated the severity of antidepressant withdrawal and discontinuation problems. He criticized new deprescribing guidelines as too limited, saying they ignore diagnostic uncertainty and ongoing controversies surrounding long-term treatment for depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.