Resources in Opposition to Psychologists Prescribing
A Discussion About Mental Health Care, Access and Treatment
Psychologists Opposed to Prescription Privileges for Psychologists (POPPP)
POPPP is a national organization of psychologists who have had extensive experience in teaching, training, research, and clinical practice. POPPP members are profoundly committed to advancing the interests of psychology as a behavioral science. They are proud of its achievements in many areas of research and practice.
POPPP members do not believe that psychologists have sufficient training in basic and biological sciences to be able to prescribe medications. Members are committed to promoting maximum safety and competence in the prescription of psychotropic drugs, which they believe can play a significant role in the treatment of many mental disorders.
State and National Organizations
Increasingly, at both the state and national level, organizations and lawmakers wisely oppose efforts by small groups of psychologists to practice medicine via the legislature:
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American Psychiatric Association
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Mental Health America
In the News
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OhioHealth project links primary care offices and mentalhealth treatment
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Letter: Oregon Gov. Brown on veto of psychologist prescriber bill from Oregon
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Prescribing is the culmination of extensive medical training and psychologists don’t qualify
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Psychiatric News: Many psychologist-prescribing bills defeated
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Psychiatric News: Psychologist-prescribing bill defeated in Hawaii
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New York Times: Still in a Crib, Yet
Being Given Antipsychotics
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TIME: ACLU Sues Psychologists Over CIA Interrogation Techniques
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Psychiatric News: Patient Safety
Forum: Should Psychologists Have Prescribing Authority?