So, I just got a psychiatric evaluation done today with a private practice, old-school that trained at Yale. Essentially, he told me I have “severe grave mental illness”, but he could not specifically name a DSM-recognized illness that matches. If I had to, I would say I have “Timeline Entanglement Disorder”, at the least.
The problem in my state (Mississippi) is that pharmacists and nurses snitch on doctors to try to get them in trouble for subjectively “over-prescribing”. This gets the authorities involved, who have no certification or training in these medicines, and they bring it to the courts, that of which also have no certification or training to rule over physician’s processes of care.
So yeah, because of this, coupled with the recent opiate company lawsuits, where major pharmacy chains like Walmart and Walgreens had to fork over billions, you have a country full of scared doctors. Scared to do their job, scared to help treat you with something that works.
These medications are extensively studied, FDA approved, and DEA prescription legal. So why be scared?
The funny thing is the worst things to consume are legal, such as cigarettes and liquor, whereas safe ways to get the same feelings, such by medicines like Adderall and Valium, are hardly even prescribed any more.
In my grandad’s day (before the Controlled Substance Act – fuck u Nixon!), doctors could order jugs of 5000 count amphetamine or barbituate pills out of a catalog. There was no more crime back then than there is now. The Controlled Substance Act by Nixon probably had some personal plot sideline with that President, but it made jobs, so the government won’t undo it.
All those poor lives of people in jails and prisons over DRUGS. that’s right, DRUGS. they didn’t murder anyone, they didn’t steal anything, they just got caught with a pill in their pocket.
this shit is lame. ’nuff said.