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Dear Senator
As an adolescent and child psychiatrist, I am drafting to strongly ask that you do not support the current bill that would permit psychologists to offer psychotropic drug prescriptions. Whereas there indeed exists a shortage of experts to care for the individuals who have mental conditions, including adolescent and child psychiatrists, enabling psychologists to offer prescriptions of drugs will not enhance access to clinical mental care that is of quality. Instead, it will tend to compromise the security of patients in the region and negatively influence the quality of health services they get.
Psychologists are not equipped to monitor, assess, and understand patients’ medical conditions as an entity. Studies have indicated a consistent insufficiency of evidence regarding the security of granting them privileges of prescription. Psychotropic drugs utilized in the treatment of mental conditions happen to be among the most powerful in contemporary clinical society. They influence every part of the human body, not just the brain. Notably, these drugs or prescriptions can have severe side effects if they fail to be prescribed properly by any other person other than a professional physician. These side effects might include stroke, coma, seizures, blood disease, heart arrhythmia, epilepsy, convulsions, and death.
Adolescent and child psychiatrists are health care provides who have more than five years of further expertise. The training period would help these individuals comprehend the complete history of medication of a patient, conduct a clinical assessment; prescribe the proper drugs at a safe level of dosage, and avoid possibly fatal interactions with medicines.
Therefore, for these reasons, I urge you to go against the bill and be happy to offer more details regarding the matter.
Yours Sincerely
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Works cited
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Mesa-Lago, Carmelo. Reassembling social security: a survey of pensions and health care reforms in Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2008.