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Doctors
warn new psychiatric guide could drug people who don’t need it
-
The
Washington Times
Wednesday,
May 15, 2013
An
estimated 3,000 doctors have signed a petition of protest against the
psychiatric industry’s latest bible for diagnosis and treatment, the DSM-5,
charging its contents could lead patients to be prescribed unnecessary
medications.
The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is set for its first
update in 19 years. Its findings will be presented in San Francisco on
Saturday, Bloomberg reported. The manual is hailed as the
“psychiatric bible” for professionals and guides how they diagnose and treat
patients; it also influences how they’re reimbursed by insurers for mental
disorders, Bloomberg said.
But
doctors aren’t happy with the updates — and 3,000 have signed a petition in
protest.
The
petition states, in part: “We, the undersigned, are concerned that the [DSM-5]
includes many diagnostic categories with questionable reliability … [and] did
not receive a much-needed and widely requested external scientific review [and]
may compromise patient safety through the implementation of lowered diagnostic
thresholds.”
Petitioners
warn that the new manual “may result in the mislabeling of mental illness in
people who would fare better without a psychiatric diagnosis, [and] may result
in unnecessary and potentially harmful treatment with psychiatric medication.”
Bloomberg reported that the aim of the fifth edition of the
DSM was to include the latest research in several conditions, such Asperger’s
syndrome, which now is grouped under the autism category.
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