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Medicating Normal

  • May is mental health awareness month. Today we're exploring how psychiatric medications are prescribed in the United States and the process of informed consent. When can medication help in a mental health crisis? When can medication create worse outcomes to that mental health crisis? And when should those medications really not be prescribed at all?