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‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US
Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects.
In the next year, Goode says, the company is planning to expand beyond antidepressants and begin offering tapering programs for stimulants and benzodiazepines, two classes of drug that are commonly prescribed in the US for issues like anxiety and ADHD and are known to cause intense withdrawal symptoms. Horowitz, who has become one of the UK's leading experts on medication tapering, known as de-prescribing, says his interest in the topic was driven by his own harrowing experience coming off antidepressants more than a decade ago when he was a psychiatry doctoral student. While he doesn’t want to discourage people who need medication from taking it, he believes that the level of chronic SSRI use happening today should be carefully evaluated to ensure social factors contributing to mental health issues are not being overlooked.
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