UK psychiatrists’ experience of withdrawal of antipsychotics prescribed for challenging behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism

UK psychiatrists’ experience of withdrawal of antipsychotics prescribed for challenging behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism

BackgroundA high proportion of adults with intellectual disabilities are prescribed off-licence antipsychotics in the absence of a psychiatric illness. The National Health Service in England launched an initiative in 2016, ‘Stopping over-medication of people with a learning disability [intellectual...

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Main Authors: Shoumitro Deb, Tom Nancarrow, Bharati Limbu, Rory Sheehan, Mike Wilcock, David Branford, Ken Courtenay, Bhathika Perera, Rohit Shankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-09-01
Series:BJPsych Open
Subjects:
Intellectual disabilities
antipsychotics
withdrawal
adults
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472420000976/type/journal_article

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