Disclaimer

Effective Date: 5/14/2026
Last Updated: 9/29/2026

A note before we get into it

This page exists to be very clear about what mydeprescriber.com is, what it isn’t, and what you should and shouldn’t rely on it for. Our Terms of Service include similar disclaimers in their formal legal sections; this page restates the most important ones in one place so they’re easy to find.

The most important parts:

  • Nothing on this Site is medical advice. It is general information to help you find a clinician — not a substitute for one.
  • In an emergency, call 911 or 988. Do not use this Site for any time-sensitive medical or mental-health need.
  • Do not stop, start, or change a psychiatric medication based on anything you read here. Discontinuation of benzodiazepines, SSRIs, SNRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and several other medication classes can cause severe — and occasionally life-threatening — physical and psychiatric reactions when done without a clinician’s plan.
  • A listing on the directory is not an endorsement by us of the provider, and is not a guarantee of their credentials, licensure, competence, or availability. Verify everything before you make a treatment decision.
  • The Certified Deprescriber program is educational, not clinical. It is not a license to practice, a board certification, accreditation, or continuing-education credit.
  • We are not affiliated with the U.S. government, CMS, NPPES, the DEA, the APA, ANCC, the APNA, or any state medical or nursing board.

The rest of this page expands on these points.

1. Not Medical Advice

The content on mydeprescriber.com (the “Site”) — including the directory of prescribers, individual provider profiles, the Playbook educational program, the Certified Deprescriber certification curriculum and assessment, blog posts, FAQs, social media content, email newsletters, and any other material we publish — is provided for general informational and educational purposes only.

The content:

  • Is not medical, psychiatric, pharmaceutical, psychological, or professional clinical advice.
  • Does not establish a doctor–patient, nurse–patient, therapist– patient, pharmacist–patient, or any other treatment relationship between you and MyDeprescriber.com, LLC, MyDeprescriber, our staff, our consultants, or any author whose work appears on the Site.
  • Is not a substitute for evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, or prescription by a licensed clinician with whom you have a direct treatment relationship.
  • May not reflect the most current clinical evidence, professional guidelines, drug approvals, or regulatory determinations. Medicine changes; what is published here may already be out of date.

Always seek the advice of a licensed healthcare professional before making any decision about your medication, your mental-health treatment, or your care.

2. Emergency Use

The Site is not designed for medical or mental-health emergencies and is not monitored in real time.

If you are experiencing a medical or psychiatric emergency:

  • Call 911 (United States) or your local emergency services number.
  • Go to the nearest emergency room.

If you are in suicidal or other psychiatric crisis:

  • Call or text 988 (U.S. Suicide & Crisis Lifeline).
  • Text “HOME” to 741741 (U.S. Crisis Text Line).
  • Call 1-800-273-8255 (legacy line still operational).

The contact-provider forms on the Site are not crisis lines. Messages sent through them may take days or longer to reach the provider — and may not reach them at all. Do not use them for any urgent or time-sensitive need.

3. Deprescribing-Specific Safety Disclaimer

Because this Site focuses specifically on deprescribing — discontinuing, reducing, or otherwise changing psychiatric medications — we need to be especially explicit about the risks of acting on deprescribing-related content without a clinician’s guidance.

3.1 Why this matters

Many psychiatric medications cannot be stopped safely without a clinician-managed taper. Risks of unsupervised discontinuation can include — depending on the medication, the dose, the duration of use, and individual physiology — any of the following:

  • Benzodiazepines (e.g., alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam): seizures, status epilepticus, severe rebound anxiety, panic, insomnia, perceptual disturbances, autonomic instability, and protracted withdrawal syndromes lasting months or longer.
  • SSRIs and SNRIs (e.g., sertraline, paroxetine, venlafaxine, duloxetine): antidepressant discontinuation syndrome including brain-zaps, dizziness, nausea, anxiety surges, mood destabilization, and re-emergence of underlying depression or suicidality.
  • Antipsychotics (typical and atypical): withdrawal dyskinesias, supersensitivity psychosis, severe nausea, agitation, and relapse of primary illness.
  • Mood stabilizers (lithium, valproate, lamotrigine, carbamazepine): destabilization of mood, manic switching, suicidality, and (for lithium) abrupt cessation has been associated with greatly increased relapse risk.
  • Sleep medications (Z-drugs, sedating antihistamines, trazodone): rebound insomnia and anxiety.
  • Stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate, amphetamine salts): depressive rebound, fatigue, and re-emergence of attentional or mood symptoms.
  • MAOIs and atypical agents: highly variable; some carry serious withdrawal risks that must be managed individually.

This list is not exhaustive. The clinical risks of stopping a psychiatric medication are specific to the medication, dose, duration, co-morbidities, co-prescriptions, and the individual patient.

3.2 What you must do

Do not stop, start, switch, taper, split, crush, micro-dose, or otherwise alter any psychiatric medication based on content you read on the Site or hear from any clinician you find through the Site, without working directly with a clinician who:

  • Holds a current license to prescribe in your state;
  • Has reviewed your full medical history, current medications, and relevant co-morbidities;
  • Has conducted your initial psychiatric evaluation; and
  • Has agreed to manage and monitor your taper; and
  • Is reachable promptly if you experience adverse symptoms.

This list is not exhaustive and does not indicate all required steps.

If you are currently taking a psychiatric medication and want to discontinue, the safest path is to discuss it with your prescribing clinician first. If your prescribing clinician declines to support a medically appropriate taper, you may seek a second opinion — but do not do it alone.

3.3 The Playbook is not a taper protocol for any individual patient

The Playbook describes general evidence-informed deprescribing approaches for use by clinicians. It is not a personalized taper plan, not a substitute for individualized assessment, and not intended to be used by patients to self-manage discontinuation. Patients and family members who take the Playbook for their own education should use it to prepare for conversations with their prescribing clinician, never to change a medication on their own.

4. Directory Accuracy

4.1 Source of directory data

The base directory is constructed from the public NPPES file published monthly by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. NPPES contains data submitted to CMS by providers themselves. We republish a filtered subset (psychiatric prescribers) and let providers claim and update their listings.

4.2 What we cannot guarantee

We do not — and cannot — guarantee that any specific provider listed on the Site:

  • Holds an active, unrestricted license in the state where you live or where they would treat you;
  • Has the credentials, training, board certifications, or scope of practice that the listing implies;
  • Holds a current DEA registration appropriate to any controlled substance you may be prescribed;
  • Is currently accepting new patients;
  • Accepts your insurance, if any;
  • Has not been the subject of disciplinary action by a state board, hospital privilege committee, or law-enforcement authority;
  • Has not changed practice address, phone, employer, telehealth licensure, or specialty since the last NPPES refresh; or
  • Is the same individual identified by the NPI on file at NPPES (NPIs belong to individuals, but identifying details can become stale).

4.3 Your responsibility

Before you make any treatment decision — scheduling, paying, attending, or accepting a prescription — you should independently verify everything that matters to you about the provider, including:

  • Current license status, via the relevant state medical or nursing board’s online verification tool;
  • Board certifications, via the relevant certifying body (e.g., American Board of Psychiatric Nurses, ABMS);
  • DEA registration, if applicable, via the DEA’s online verification service or through the provider directly;
  • Insurance acceptance, via the provider’s billing office; and
  • Practice location and contact information, via the provider’s own website or office.

The directory is a starting point, not a substitute for due diligence.

5. No Endorsement; No Referral; No Vetting

Inclusion in the directory does not constitute, and should not be read as, an endorsement, recommendation, referral, or guarantee of any kind by MyDeprescriber.

We do not:

  • Vet providers for clinical competence, bedside manner, treatment philosophy, ethics, or outcomes;
  • Review malpractice records, peer reviews, or licensure histories before listing a provider;
  • Monitor patient outcomes from any provider; or

Whether a particular provider is a good fit for you is your decision and your provider’s. It is not our recommendation.

6. No Government, Regulatory, or Industry Affiliation

MyDeprescriber.com and MyDeprescriber.com, LLC are independent and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise connected to:

  • The U.S. federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), or the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA);
  • Any state government, including state medical, nursing, or pharmacy boards;
  • The American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the National Academy of Medicine, or any other professional, certifying, or accrediting organization;
  • Any pharmaceutical manufacturer, distributor, or pharmacy benefit manager; or
  • Any insurance company, payer, or managed-care organization.

References to public data sources (such as the NPPES file) reflect the public nature of that data and do not imply any relationship with the government agency that publishes it.

7. Educational Content Disclaimer (Playbook, Articles, Newsletters)

The Playbook curriculum, the Certified Deprescriber assessment materials, articles, blog posts, newsletters, infographics, and any other educational content we publish are:

  • Educational — written for general professional or general public education, depending on the piece;
  • Not personalized — we don’t know your individual clinical context, and we don’t review your specific case;
  • Not endorsed by any state licensing board or specialty board (we are not currently an approved CE/CME provider; if that changes we will say so explicitly on the relevant course page); and
  • Subject to change — clinical knowledge evolves, and we may revise or remove content as our understanding improves.

Clinicians who use the Playbook in their practice remain solely responsible for applying — or declining to apply — its content to any specific patient based on the clinician’s own judgment, the patient’s clinical situation, and the standard of care in the clinician’s jurisdiction.

8. The “Certified Deprescriber” Designation

The Certified Deprescriber designation is an educational certification awarded by MyDeprescriber.com, LLC to clinicians who complete the Playbook curriculum and pass the associated written assessment.

8.1 What the Certification means

It means the holder has:

  • Completed the Playbook curriculum as we designed and published it; and
  • Passed our written assessment of the material as of the date listed on the certification.

8.2 What the Certification does not mean

It does not mean, and should not be relied upon to mean, that the holder:

  • Holds a medical, nursing, advanced-practice, or any other government- issued professional license. Licensure is a separate matter governed exclusively by state authorities.
  • Is board-certified in any clinical specialty. Board certification is granted only by recognized certifying bodies; MyDeprescriber.com, LLC is not such a body.
  • Has been accredited by any state medical or nursing board, by the American Board of Medical Specialties, by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, or by any other independent accreditation organization.
  • Has clinical experience with any specific patient population, medication, dose range, taper protocol, or co-occurring condition.
  • Has been screened or vetted by us for malpractice history, license discipline, ethics complaints, or patient outcomes.
  • Has a duty of care to you arising from the certification itself (clinical duties arise only from the direct provider–patient relationship the clinician forms with you).

8.3 No license to practice

Completion of the Playbook or the Certification does not authorize the holder, or anyone else, to:

  • Practice medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, or any other state-regulated profession;
  • Prescribe, dispense, administer, or recommend prescription medications, including any controlled substance;
  • Hold themselves out to the public as a licensed clinician of any kind; or
  • Provide clinical advice to a specific patient.

All clinical activity remains governed by the laws of the state(s) in which the clinician is licensed.

9. Testimonials, Reviews, and User-Generated Content

Any testimonials, quotes, reviews, ratings, or case stories that appear on the Site reflect the opinions of the individuals who submitted them.

  • Individual results are not typical. A testimonial does not guarantee that any other person will experience similar results from similar treatment or similar use of a provider.
  • Testimonials are not clinical evidence. They are personal experiences, not controlled studies, and should not be relied upon for treatment decisions.
  • Provider-submitted content (including a provider’s bio, treatment approach, and listed specialties) reflects what the provider chose to say about themselves and has not been independently verified by us.

If a testimonial-displayed page does not also display a compensation disclosure, the testimonial was provided without payment or material benefit from us, unless we expressly note otherwise on that page.

10. Third-Party Content and Links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, content, products, or services we do not control — for example, a provider’s own practice website, a research paper, a news article, or a tool a clinician recommends.

We do not endorse, control, or accept any responsibility for third- party content. Once you leave the Site, the third party’s terms, privacy policy, and conduct govern your interaction with them. Review their policies before providing any personal information.

11. Errors and Omissions

We make reasonable efforts to keep the Site accurate, but errors, omissions, broken links, outdated information, and technical issues are inevitable on a site this size. We do not warrant that the Site is error-free, complete, or continuously available.

If you find an error — particularly a clinical or factual one — please report it to support@mydeprescriber.com so we can investigate and correct it.

12. Forward-Looking Statements

If we publish forward-looking statements about our product roadmap, clinical evidence base, partnerships, or business plans, those statements reflect current intent and are subject to change. We do not commit to any specific timeline, feature, or outcome unless expressly stated in a written agreement signed by an authorized officer of MyDeprescriber.com, LLC.

13. Healthcare Decisions Are Personal

Decisions about psychiatric medication — including whether to taper, when to taper, how to taper, and whether to continue treatment — are deeply personal decisions that depend on your unique medical history, current symptoms, support network, life circumstances, and values.

The information on this Site is meant to help you understand the landscape and find a clinician who can help you reason through those decisions. It is not meant to tell you what to do, what is right for you, or whether you should continue or discontinue any specific treatment.

If a provider you find through this Site recommends something different from what you read here, follow your provider’s individualized advice.

14. Relationship to Our Other Legal Documents

This Disclaimer is part of our Terms of Service and incorporates them by reference. Where this Disclaimer and our Terms of Service overlap, both apply. If they conflict in any way, the Terms of Service control.

Our Privacy Policy governs how we collect, use, and share information. Our Terms of Service govern your rights and obligations when using the Site.

If you have not read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, please do.

15. Changes to This Disclaimer

We may update this Disclaimer from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above. Continued use of the Site after posting constitutes acceptance of the revised Disclaimer.

16. Contact

If you have questions about this Disclaimer:

MyDeprescriber.com, LLC
Attention: Legal
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Email: legal@mydeprescriber.com

For clinical concerns about content on the Site — for example, if you believe something we have published is medically incorrect or could cause harm — please report it to support@mydeprescriber.com. We take clinical-accuracy reports seriously and will review promptly.