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And this week we will be talking with Professor Jim Van Osse and Dr Peter Groot about their latest study

which looks at the effectiveness of tapering strips to help people get off antidepressant drugs.

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Now on to our interview and Jim Vanoss is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Public

Mental Health at Utrecht University Medical Center in the Netherlands and Peter Groot works with

the user Research Centre of

UMC, Utrecht. They are both involved with the development and study of tapering strips,

which are prepackaged, gradually reducing dosage tablets that facilitate tapered withdrawal

from psychiatric drugs. In this interview, we discussed their latest research paper,

which examines tapering strips in real-world use. Jim and Peter, welcome. Thank you so much for

joining me again for the Mad at America podcast. We're here to talk about your recent paper

entitled Successful Use of Taper of tapering strips for hyperbolic

reduction of antidepressant dose a cohort study and this is published in the journal therapeutic

advances in psychopharmacology and obviously it's a paper of great interest to me someone with a

personal stake in this since i've used

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