Tapering (medicine)
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In medicine, tapering is the practice of gradually reducing the dosage of a medication to reduce or discontinue it. Generally, tapering is done is to avoid or minimize withdrawal symptoms that arise from neurobiological adaptation to the drug.[1][2]
Prescribed psychotropic drugs that may require tapering due to this physical dependence include opioids,[3][4][5] selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,[6] antipsychotics,[7] anticonvulsants,[8] and benzodiazepines.[9][10]