Tips on prescribing for patients at risk of medication overdose

Despite the development and widespread use of medications that are safer in overdose—for example, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—the risk of death by drug overdose has reportedly been increasing (quoted in Marder and Gitlin, 2017). When prescribing psychiatric medications to patients who are judged to have a significant risk of overdosing on medications we…