A structured way off, when you're ready
Structured, medically supervised tapering for patients carrying more prescriptions than they need, without white-knuckling it alone.
How medication lists grow, and why they rarely shrink
Prescriptions accumulate through years of fragmented care: one clinician adds a medication for sleep, another for anxiety, a third to manage the side effects of the first two. Each made sense at the time. Nobody was ever responsible for the whole picture, and stopping anything felt riskier than staying the course.
Deprescribing is the medical discipline of reversing that drift: deciding, carefully and with you, which medications are still earning their place, and reducing the rest slowly enough that your nervous system can keep up. Done well, it is some of the most delicate work in psychiatry. Done abruptly or alone, it can be genuinely dangerous, which is why supervision matters.
How supervised tapering works here
Full-Picture Assessment
A comprehensive review of every medication, why it was started, what it's doing now, and how the pieces interact, before anything changes.
Personalized Taper Design
Step-by-step reduction plans built around your medications, your history, and your life, paced by your response rather than a printed schedule.
Close Follow-Up
Frequent check-ins to distinguish withdrawal effects from relapse, adjust the pace, and support sleep, mood, and steadiness along the way.
What is deprescribing?
Deprescribing is the planned, medically supervised process of reducing or stopping medications that may no longer be necessary, effective, or well-tolerated. In psychiatry it means designing gradual, individualized tapers, monitoring closely for withdrawal effects and symptom return, and adjusting the plan as your body responds. It is not anti-medication; it is the other half of good prescribing.
At Entheo Clinic, deprescribing is one of the practice's core services, offered by telehealth to patients across California. People come to this work feeling overmedicated, numbed, or simply curious whether they still need everything they take. A comprehensive evaluation answers that question honestly, and if a taper makes sense, you won't walk it alone.
Find out what you actually still need.
A comprehensive evaluation is the honest starting point for any taper.
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