
Taper Safer
@tapersafer
Twitter account for ongoing research projects on the tapering of psychiatric medicines led by researchers in Trinity College Dublin. More info at tapersafer.org
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24-06-2022 09:59:06
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Trinity study aims to develop research questions about reducing and stopping psychiatric drugs madinireland.com/2023/10/trinit… via Mad In Ireland

🚨👇Really important study taking place Trinity College Dublin is seeking people to take part in anonymous surveys to help shape research agenda about helping people to reduce and stop psychiatric medications if they so wish. #research #evidence #mentalhealth #informedconsent







Congrats to Miriam Boland and Cathal Cadogan for leading this priority setting project for deprescribing research from hundreds of patients and clinicians. Good to work with Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Prof Kessler Kindly #deprescribe -- taper psychiatric drugs and others to find common ground for progress. Funders welcome now!

Taper Safer Miriam Boland Agnes Higgins Trinity College Dublin TCD Pharmacy International Institute for Psych Drug Withdrawal Alliance for Benzo Best Practices Benzodiazepine Information Coalition CEP The Mental Elf James Lind Alliance Thank you so much for asking me to input to this important study and all your hard work in this overlooked area.


New #TrinityResearch from TCD Pharmacy & School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD identifies the top ten future #research priorities for reducing or stopping #psychiatricmedication Study is published in BMJ_Open by Cathal Cadogan Agnes Higgins & Miriam Boland READ MORE: tcd.ie/news_events/to… #TrinityExperts


Great to see this from Trinity College Dublin "The global consumption of psychiatric medication is increasing by 4% annually, with the greatest increase observed in antidepressant use. For people who wish to reduce and/or stop there are many gaps & unanswered questions."


James Lind Alliance have announced their Top 10 priorities for future research into reducing and stopping psychiatric medicines. We're offering #ResearchFunding to address these - for more details and to apply for funding, please see: nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr-j…