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New American Society of Addiction Medicine Guidelines (FDA funded) for #Benzodiazepinetapering 💊
Key recommendations:
5-10% dose reductions when determining initial pace of taper. Shouldn't exceed 25% every 2/52
Further reductions depend on initial response, consider 5-10% every 6-8/52 or slower
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BenzoBuddies
Check out BenzoBuddies.org: a peer support group / forum for people who aim to reduce their #benzodiazepine intake. BDZ tapering and withdrawal is notoriously difficult, glad to have found something to share with patients. Hope its helpful for those bravely taking on this challenge!
28.05.2025 09:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reevaluating the brain disease model of addiction
The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) ove…
New today in Lancet Psychiatry, "Reevaluating the brain disease model of addiction", led by @chrysanthi-bltk.bsky.social w/ @ioanaacristea.bsky.social, Fried, & Albanese. I'm chuffed to be involved in this one! **Please RT **(link takes you to free version) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The effect of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use on vaccine acceptance, uptake, and adherence: a systematic review
Short Summary: Included studies (n = 103) identified current tobacco use as a predictor for poorer vaccine-related outcomes pertaining to influenza, COVID-
Our systematic review on the effect of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use on #vaccine acceptance, uptake, and adherence was published!💉🎉🧠Huge thank you to Lorenzo Leggio and my Intramural Research Programme, National Institutes on Drug Abuse, NIH team members🫶
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