Why the drug withdrawal management is dangerous

March 17, 2025, article in New York Times (It was updated on March 24) by Ellen Barry, anxiously, and everyone should read it with interest in mental health care.

The article of Laura Dylano National Movement – which oversees the coaches who supervise the lack of psychological effects in large numbers of patients – is excessively flowing Premature Show what Delano Non -Klino offers by allocating more space for its smiles more than the greatest dangers.

Barry accurately emphasizes the harmful use and recovery of drugs with a psychological effect, as people may take up to three or four drugs. In fact, it says that 25 percent of Americans took these medications during Corona virus pandemic. Delano’s experience is encouraging because she felt improving after stopping the medications she had taken for many years – which are reports similar to others in her secular work as she trains them to break up and stop psychological agents.

However, I was surprised that no person discovered the main Dylano’s mistake: to blame psychiatry for excessive use of psychiatric drugs. It is well known that primary care and other medical doctors prescribe more than 60 percent of all drugs with psychological effect.¹ But behind digital variation, there is another problem that leads to excessive use. Medicine does not train doctors in mental health or the use of drugs with psychological effect.^2,3 However, often based on the urges of the drug details, most of them prescribe. Medicine also does not train doctors in the field of primary care on complicated, and they do not know them closely during drug stopping. Worse than that, doctors do not know how to manage drug withdrawal problems, drug adoption, or repetition of the foundation Psychiatry The disease – or unfortunately, from someone becomes Suicide.

Here is a very frequent problem that I have seen as an initial care doctor: Unless trained doctors often prescribe drugs with a psychological effect to face the effect of the other. For example, he prescribes the doctor frankly Stimulant Drugs, but it leads to insomnia; To correct this, they describe addiction benzodiazep sleepy At the awakening the next day, thus justifying the use of the activator.

Why don’t you argue about training doctors who cause the problem rather than blame psychiatry?

Barry’s piece after that failed to highlight adequate risk in the Dylano approach. This leaves open to readers. The idea that Dylano may be fine. it’s not.

The correct question to be asked is: “Do we really want another group of people who have greater deficiency in training from doctors in the field of primary care who stop and stop using long -term use of drugs with psychological effect?” This can be fatal in unacceptable hands. For example, withdrawal cramps when Panodiazepines patients stop very quickly; It may take it as long as it is months or even a year for chronic users.

Another problem is that the drug works to properly diagnose mental illness, and disorder disorder is ignited after stopping. This is a common problem in Two -way disorderWhere patients often prefer a good feeling that fits with little mania Because the drugs are completely suppressed. Dylano Training It can lead to an inappropriate stop for a wonderful patient, who later suffers from the dire consequences of ignition. Moreover, stop medications for depression It can be particularly confusing because repetition may occur weeks or even after months of takeoff, and patients are likely not to recognize the relationship.

Unfortunately, Barry’s article also fails to emphasize that psychiatrists are the most expert in all doctors in using psychiatric drugs (four years of residency training) – and that some medications (AntidepressantsAntipsychotics, steroids) very effective in the right hands. Supporting Delano Psychiatric Psychiatric position raises red flags for me because it enhances wrong beliefs about other high -value psychiatry treatments, such as Electroshock to treatThe most effective therapy for thermal depression.

Here is a clear question for Deano: “Why don’t you seek credibility by making mental health specialists join their efforts, or at least advise him?” Many of them agree with their hypothesis that people use many medications. It can be particularly recommended for extracting protocols, monitoring of complications, and assistance when things do not go well. They can also help detect outbreak problems with addictedThe dependence and abuse of use that may be ignored by Dylano.

What should patients do if they think they are taking many medications? Make a clear request to the primary care doctor to see if they feel comfortable overseeing a lack. If not, the patient must ask to refer to a psychiatrist, a psychiatrist or another advisor, although they do not prescribe, they can give voice advice on what to do.

Finally, this article, as Dylano, does the main reason for the excessive use of drugs, ignores dangerous practices by non -trained persons, encouraging a biased vision of psychiatry, and enhances wrong beliefs about what constitutes good mental health care.