Grunt Style Foundation Veteran Impact Fellow = leading campaign to end overprescribing epidemic to our Nation’s vets. SVA, MIA, UM, USAF, VA, VFW & Legion alum
Oct 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@KenV54 @Barbara38667941 @Altostrata @ProfRobHoward @SameiHuda @PeterDKramer @dawso007 @MarkLRuffalo @awaisaftab Hi Ken, Fellow @umich alum here. This issue isn’t just of psychiatrists, but because they did the research and then publicly marketed the meds, they get a lot of the blame. GPs prescribe much more by volume, but are even more in the dark about side and withdrawal effects. 1)2) Far too many patients were not educated on dangers of these meds (importance of not miss a day or days, interactions with alcohol, etc, etc) and had catastrophic life events as result. Then adding in the issue of withdrawal, which almost none of us were told about, it causes a lot of anger the patients and families who were harmed (lost jobs because they blew up on a boss, family fell apart because of behavioral changes from acute withdrawal, and suicides).
