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Matthew Loftus
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This is quite the article, and so very much worth reading.
newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
Especially this part:
I am really, really thankful that my Family Medicine training included a lot of psychopharmacology, including de-prescribing and withdrawal. Every doctor who starts these meds should know how to stop them.
Working here in rural Africa, though, quite frankly sometimes I'm glad that I only have one or two of each kind of psychiatric medication. It removes the illusion that if I just mix and match and titrate right, everything will be right for the patient.
But to the original article: add "psychiatric meds" to a large pile of modern innovations that are absolutely life-saving for some people and a money-extracting albatross for others.
Thought of the most recent @LMSacasas newsletter here: "focusing on measurable instances of harm takes for granted a particular set of assumptions about what exactly counts as morally consequential. What of harms that may not be subject to quantification?" tinyletter.com/lmsacasas
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