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Medication Substitutions
POSITION STATEMENT
Approved by the Board of Trustees, December 1995
Reaffirmed, September 2009
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"Policy documents are approved by the APA Assembly and Board of Trustees… These are …position statements that define APA official policy on specific subjects…" -- APA Operations Manual. |
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The American Psychiatric Association opposes the practice of therapeutic interchange of psychoactive medication, including the interchangeability of generic and brand medications, without the express consent of the prescribing psychiatrist.
The above statement if considered a supplement to the Joint Statement on Anti-substitution Laws and Regulations, which was adopted by the American Psychiatric Association in February 1973, and is endorsed by a number of other medical societies.