The curriculum was designed by the Georgia Psychological Association and is not affiliated with any medical school. No university curriculum committee has approved the courses. Continuing Education departments at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and Georgia State University take no position on the prescribing legislation and do not claim that the students will be able to safely prescribe medications. There is no shortage of physicians to prescribe and manage patients on psychotropic medications. And in the eight without a physician practicing within county lines, no citizen lives more than 35 minutes from a medical doctor.
Psychologists have no medical training.
They do not have more expertise in pharmacology and prescribing than medical doctors. Family physicians, pediatricians, and other MDs do not need psychologists to consult with them on using psychotropic medications as the psychologists assert. Medication that affects behavior works in the brain, which controls all other systems and functions of the body. Medications used for mental illness and mental disorders are complex and dangerous.