A new review of antidepressant withdrawal effects—written by academics, many of whom have close ties to drug manufacturers—risks underestimating the potential harms to long-term antidepressant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stopping antidepressants doesn’t lead to as many withdrawal symptoms as previously thought, according to a new study. In a large trial examining the crucial weeks after people end treatment ...

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

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 ...

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.