Lisa Harding, MD, urges psychiatrists to gather histories, deprescribe safely, and send focused sleep referrals now that orexin agonists have arrived for narcolepsy.
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Psychiatry Update: March 2018
Author(s)Natalie Timoshin, Laurie Martin
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