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Scientists warn antidepressant withdrawal downplayed by ‘industry-funded’ studies A new review dismisses the risks of stopping antidepressants after long-term use, writes Mark Horowitz and ...

Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown.

Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms may be less common than we thought, at least for short-term use – but questions remain about what happens to people who stop taking the drugs after much longer ...

To further investigate how prevalent and severe withdrawal symptoms could be among patients, Henssler and colleagues carried out an analysis of 79 trials that had compiled data from 21,002 ...

The authors also discovered the medications most often linked with withdrawal symptoms were desvenlafaxine, venlafaxine, imipramine and escitalopram. Those with the lowest rate of discontinuation ...

Long-term users also tend to experience worse withdrawal symptoms, and for a longer period of time, than short-term users, and are less likely to be able to stop taking the drug when they attempt ...

About 15% of patients experienced withdrawal symptoms after weaning from antidepressants, a systematic review showed. In 2 to 3% of the cases, the symptoms were severe.