Some patients share their journeys and strategies to stop taking these drugs.
Stopping a psychotropic drug, especially a benzodiazepine or an antidepressant, is the normal course of treatment. And yet these drugs hardly disappear from prescriptions. One of the reasons mentioned by many studies is the resignation of doctors who see stopping treatment in chronic users as doomed to failure. The “old” practitioners and/or the most prescribers among them would be the most pessimistic. “It must also be recognized that we doctors know how to initiate new drugs very well, but that the strategies for stopping are not sufficiently documented and taught”raise the Pr Christophe Lançon, head of the adult mental health service at the Marseille University Hospital.
Consequence: withdrawal attempts, accompanied or not by a doctor, are a challenge for patients and sometimes a source of great discomfort when a withdrawal syndrome arises. Scalded, many of them then take their medicine again.
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