I'm disappointed to see apologia here for this particular, concrete implementation of deprescribing. Nothing good will come from this.

To me it seems intuitive that pathologies are generally not universal conditions of a universal human mind but are historically situated like the rest of subjective experience, and that the DSM is a deeply political text - and that changes not one goddamn thing about the fact that this deprescribing is yet another weaponization of the US medical system as-fucking-always.

Of all the times and places to philososophize about how some imaginary, better version of US healthcare with no connection to reality would involve fewer medications, this is among of the most foolish, or else the most violently bigoted. As we dismantle the remnants of our welfare state, am I going to see some on here equivocating about how, since it was a liberal welfare state, its dissolution might actually be a good thing for the people losing food and housing?