The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines

Auteur

David Taylor, PhD, FFRPS, FRPharmS, FRCPEdin, FRCPsych(Hon), is Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Professor of Psychopharmacology at King's College, London. He is the lead author of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry and Editor-in-Chief of Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. He co-authored the Royal College of Psychiatrists guide on 'Stopping antidepressants'. His pharmacy department ran a medication help-line for a decade which fielded queries largely related to withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. He has personal experience of stopping psychiatric drugs.