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Who can write drug prescriptions for people who suffer from mental illness?
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In the United States, a psychiatrist (a physician with further specialization in mental/psychiatric illnesses), a regular physician (MD or DO), a Physician Assistant (PA) working under the supervision of such physicians. or a psychiatric or other Nurse Practitioner (NP) may prescribe psychiatric/psychotropic drugs/medications for people with mental illness (acute or chronic). In some very limited cases,
Registered Nurses and Paramedics may make the decision to give these medications, often under the authority of a standing order from a physician for use in certain emergency or remote location-type situations, or in prison clinics.
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