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  • Psychiatric Polypharmacy: An Opportunity to Teach with CPCP

    Psychiatric Polypharmacy: An Opportunity to Teach with CPCP

    Dr. H. Steven Moffic discussed the issue with psychiatric polypharmacy in his August 29, 2022 entry on Psychiatric Views on the Daily News. The patient who had been getting 10 psychotropic drugs was found to have a medical problem ultimately, which led to simplification of the complex regimen. This is a great opportunity to again…

  • Overdiagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders Still Happens

    Overdiagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders Still Happens

    I read an excellent article in Clinical Psychiatry News recently in the Hard Talk section. The title is “A prescription for de-diagnosing” by psychiatrists Nicholas Badre, MD and David Lehman, MD in the July 2022 issue (Vol 50, No. 7). The bottom line is that too many psychiatric patients have too many psychiatric diagnoses. A…