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How do you taper antipsychotics being used for autism spectrum disorder if behaviors have been stable?

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With sustained stabilization of behaviors - i.e., stable for 1 year - I start to taper very slowly, depending on how long they have been on a particular medication. This decision also depends on how severe the behaviors were prior to starting the antipsychotics, and whether or not they have any SEs....

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