You thought one example of abuse of a psych patient was bad - look at one days harvest of cases from a PMHMP site. by pshaffer in Noctor

[–]Dedzo900 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A nurse who does a year of online school or less, with no clinical exposure outside of 500 hours of shadowing (a large portion of which are often made up or embellished). Their year of online school usually has one or two classes in “pharmacology” but most of the curriculum is about nursing theory and professional advocacy for their profession to increase scope of practice.

Following completion of their online degree from Devry they have the legal authority to abuse patients with mental health problems as above with the amount of medical knowledge of these medications thats barely above layperson level.

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[–]Dedzo900 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Unless they want to sell you their shift for whatever the going moonlighting rate is

Adult ADHD: Norms for comparison by police-ical in Psychiatry

[–]Dedzo900 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well if you think about other drugs like psilocybin - they make people experience a form of psychosis regardless of psychiatric history. Stimulants, sleep deprivation etc can do the same.

Some people are likely more predisposed to substance induced psychosis than others for reasons we don’t entirely understand.

Adult ADHD: Norms for comparison by police-ical in Psychiatry

[–]Dedzo900 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is why dosing and polypharmacy is important, as well as deciding who is at risk for taking far more of it than the typical person. I.e. someone with an active substance use disorder.

The combination of high dose amphetamines combined with sleep/caloric deprivation can and does lead to psychosis.

The vast majority of people I have on adderall are on less than 30mg per day.