[e-drug] Handbook of drug discontinuation

["Staffan Svensson" <staffan.svensson@pharm.gu.se>]

E-DRUG: Handbook of drug discontinuation
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Dear all,

A Swedish MD, Claes Lundgren, has written an 80-page handbook on how to
discontinue medicines. It is claimed to be the first handbook on this
subject. It is named "FAS-UT" ("PHASE-OUT") and covers benzodiazepines,
antipsychotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, proton pump inhibitors
and acetylcholinesterase inhibiting drugs. This handbook exists only in
Swedish.

regards

Staffan Svensson, MD
Dept of Clinical Pharmacology
Sahlgren's Univ Hospital
Gothenburg
Sweden
staffan.svensson@pharm.gu.se

[Any Swedish E-drugger who could post an english exective summary? WB]