Neuroskeptic weighs in on the controversy over the lack of antipsychotic dose data in the RAISE study and the misleading media coverage. He points out that one of the treatment interventions was a computerized medication management system called COMPASS, which recommends doctors use lower doses than they otherwise might.
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NICE in the UK recommend the lowest possible dose combined with the use of Psychotherapy. Naturally, as the medication is reduced Psychotherapy can work with what comes to the surface (and eventually the medication can reduce to very little, or nothing).
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“The lowest possible dose” is none, and I wish.
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Recommendations have this tiny problem that they can be (and are) routinely ignored with no consequences to the ignoring.
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Ignorance is the way, the truth, the life.
Psychiatry is obviously self-correcting. In lowering doses, they’re easily convicted of overdosing people to the point of injury, disability and even death.
We’re in a state of lawlessness though. Only when true Justice takes right action will this nightmare finally end.
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Drug taper and psychotherapy does work, but it means that the drugs are tranquillisers and theres no such thing as ‘mental illness’ .
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