Ending Antidepressants II
A conversation with Dr. Mark Horowitz, of Outro Health.
Readers of The Frontier Psychiatrists, today’s article is part 2 of an interview with Dr. Mark Horowitz, MBBS, Ph.D. It has light editing. I’m your interviewer, Owen Scott Muir, M.D.
He’s a psychiatrist and co-founder of Outro Health. I’m an advisor to that company also. They exist to allow patients to taper off of antidepressant medication safely. I’ve written about the lack of efficacy in these drugs before.
My book, Inessential Pharmacology, does not go easy on drugs (Amazon link). Mark’s book is the Maudsley Deprescribing Guide. It offers guidance to clinicians on how to safely discontinue these medicines.
In part one, we learned that Mark trained as a psychiatrist and psychologist (at once!) in Australia and traveled to the UK to pursue neuroscience research. However, his brain problems were offered treatment with medicines that, themselves, caused side effects, and those piled up to a disabling c…