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Polypharmacy: When might it make sense?

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After reviewing your patient’s medication regimen, if one of these scenarios does not clearly exist, consider a “deprescribing” approach—reducing or stopping medications—to address unnecessary and potentially detrimental polypharmacy. For more information on deprescribing, see “6 Steps to deprescribing: A practical approach,” (Current Psychiatry, June 2017, p. 36-37).

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