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A FEW MONTHS ago, when the morning news was first talking about how HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had announced plans to curb “psychiatric overprescribing,” I immediately thought of my patients. I often do before the sun begins to rise, but this was different. The news continued with Kennedy’s views on SSRIs, including that some people have “had a much worse time getting off of SSRIs than people have getting off of heroin,” and that they are in part responsible for an uptick in gun violence. I knew both claims were false, but I was also eerily aware that I am not the one with the bully pulpit.
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