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[-] Tin@beehaw.org 10 points 5 days ago

While I'm not a fan of RFK Jr., this seems to be a misinterpretation of what he's saying. Regarding antidepressants, he said, "other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need..." (emphasis mine)

It seems like, in addition to drug related offenses (which is its own rather thorny issue) he intends for this to be for people who want to stop taking SSRIs, benzos, and other psych meds and need support doing it. I'm not seeing any indication that this would be involuntary, and I'm certain that if he said anything like that the quote would be present, but it's not.

Having seen how devastating the withdrawal can be for some psych meds, even with tapering, I can't say that this seems like a bad idea on its face. So many people try to quit psych meds and end up hospitalized; I've believed for a long time that there should be some sort of recovery program for people coming off of these medications, because they will 100% mess you up when you start taking less.

Now, adderall I don't really understand its inclusion here, because it isn't known for withdrawal.

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 11 points 5 days ago

They are never that direct. It starts at one thing and in a few months its in full swing

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