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Mark Abie Horowitz

Mark Abie Horowitz is an Australian and British psychiatry researcher and deprescribing expert. He is the lead author of the ''Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines'', and currently works as a Clinical Research Fellow in psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust, running a deprescribing clinic. He holds a PhD in the neurobiology of depression and the pharmacology of antidepressants from King's College London.

Horowitz has stated that his career ambitions were influenced by his own experience with having severe withdrawal symptoms when trying to stop his own antidepressants after 15 years of being on them. When trying to wean himself down according to the clinical guidelines at the time, he was blindsided by symptoms so severe they up-ended his life, forcing him to return to his original dose. He and his colleague David Taylor have called for more research to be done on withdrawal and tapering regimens. Horowitz has stated that to him the lack of research on stopping antidepressants is "the same as allowing cars to be sold without brakes". Provided by Wikipedia