Toolbox for Healthcare Providers
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Drug Class |
Specific Drug examples |
Item description |
URL |
Benzodiazepines, sedatives, hypnotics |
diazepam, chlordiazepoxide, oxazepam, clorazepate, lorazepam, bromazepam, alprazolam, flurazepam, nitrazepam, triazolam, temazepam, chloral hydrate, zopiclone, zolpidem |
Is a Benzodiazepine or Z-Drug still needed for sleep? 听 |
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Empower brochure information about sleeping aids |
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How to get a good nights sleep without sleep aids |
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How to reduce sleeping medication safely |
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Sleepwell NS many resources for stopping sleeping medications |
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Antipsychotics |
chlorpromazine, methotrimeprazine, fluphenazine, perphenazine, prochlorperazine, trifluoperazine, thioproperazine, percyazine, haloperidol, droperidol, ziprasidone, lurasidone, flupenthixol, thiothixene, zuclopenthixol, pimozide, loxapine, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, asenapine, risperidone, aripiprazole |
Is an antipsychotic still needed |
听[PDF - 586 KB] |
Deprescribing safely to meet life鈥檚 changes |
听[PDF - 398 KB] |
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Empower brochure, information about antipsychotics |
Booklet [PDF - 4.6 MB] | ||
Anticholinergics (scoring 3 on anticholinergic cognitive burden scale) |
amitriptyline, amoxapine, benztropine, carbinoxamine, chlorpeniramine, clemastine, clomipramine, clozapine, darifenacin, desipramine, dicyclomine, dimenhydrinate, diphenhydramine, doxepin, flavoxate, hydroxyzine, imipramine, meclizine, nortriptyline, olanzapine, orphenadrine, oxybutynin, paroxetine, perphenazine, procyclidine, promethazine, quetiapine, scopolamine, thioridazine, tolterodine, trifluperazine, truhexyphenidyl, trimipramine |
Empower brochure for stopping anticholinergic antihistamines |
听[PDF - 3MB] |
Proton Pump Inhibitors |
omeprazole, pantoprazole, lansoprazole, rabeprazole, esomeprazole |
Is a proton pump inhibitor still needed |
听[PDF - 400 KB] |
Reducing proton pump inhibitors to meet life鈥檚 changes |
听[PDF - 330 KB] |
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Empower brochure to help you stop proton pump inhibitors safely |
听[PDF - 4 MB] |
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Colchicine long term |
colchicine |
Medstopper information about stopping colchicine |
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Antihypertensives with a history of falling, hypotension or orthostasis |
Various agents ie. hydrocholorothiazide, amlodipine, metoprolol, ramipril, losartan, diltaizem |
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Opiates |
Codeine, hydromorphone, morphine, fentanyl, pentazocine, oxycodone, meperidine, tramadol |
Government of Canada website with resources for patients and healthcare providers regarding opiates |
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Questions and Answers: Prescription Opioids 鈥� Sticker and Handout Requirements for Pharmacists and Practitioners Government of Canada |
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Opioids Aware: A resource for patients and healthcare professionals to support prescribing of opioid medicines for pain |
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A pocket guide for opiate deprescribing |
[PDF - 1.9 MB] |
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General deprescribing advice |
Website for how to safely stop many medications |
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