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The Deprescribing Movement Is Here

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The Deprescribing Movement Is Here
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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I count myself fortunate to be witness to a collapsing paradigm of folly. The event was the Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit sponsored by the MAHA Institute and the Inner Compass Initiative, held in Washington on May 4, 2026. It was a full day of deep investigation into the problem of overprescription of psychiatric drugs—for all classes of people, but young people in particular.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]