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Good Prescribing Practice in Adults with ASD

Maudsley Hospital National Autism Service recommendations for good prescribing practice in adults with ASD, derived from the following full article:

Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis, assessment, and health service development

 

Pharmacological Approaches

For further education for Psychiatrists, the RCPSYCH have developed this quickbite to look at the role of medication in ASD.

Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Place for Pharmacological Approaches

Please note. You will require a CPD eLearning subscription to access this training module.

 

Easy Read Medication Information

The University of Birmingham have produced easy read medication leaflets for 35 psychotropic medications, as well as audio recordings of medication information for those with reading challenges.

Easy Read Medication Information

 

Risk of Over-medication

Individuals with Autism and other disabilities may be at disproportionate risk of over-medication, or polypharmacy. In response to this, important resources have been developed by the United Kingdom National Health Service, to provide guidance for individuals, carers and treating practitioners around this topic:

Stopping Overuse of Medication in People with Learning Disability (STOMP)

The Royal College of Psychiatrists: Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability have developed practice guidelines relating to overuse of medication.

STOMP

A video introduction to this important campaign for Psychiatrists can be found here

 



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