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  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    It’s so weird for me that he seemed surprised that benzos are, in fact, highly addictive with severe withdraw symptoms. Isn’t he a psychologist and potentially someone who is allowed to prescribe such drugs?

    • amelia@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Fortunately only psychiatrists can prescribe drugs and they’re actual physicians.

      • troutsushi@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        That’s an important distinction that too few people understand:

        Psychiatrists: medical doctors with a specialization in mental health who can prescribe drugs

        Psychologists: trained professionals with an academic degree who provide mental health care by (generally) talking with you

        Both are important health care providers, but they generally do very different things, and in a mental health crisis you best have one of each at hand.