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Member 51411 · 10-04-2008, 06:14 PM

Also from the APA Monitor:

Louisiana’s psychologists earned prescriptive authority in 2004 and started prescribing in 2005. However, until this year, medical psychologists were not included in the state statute among the categories of health professionals authorized to prescribe psychotropic medications in the state’s public psychiatric health-care facilities. So, to preclude psychiatry from impeding medical psychologists’ ability to practice fully in these settings, the Louisiana Psychological Association helped pass a bill giving medical psychologists the explicit authorization to prescribe in state psychiatric facilities.

10-04-2008, 06:14 PM	#493
Member 51411 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,146	Also from the APA Monitor: Louisiana’s psychologists earned prescriptive authority in 2004 and started prescribing in 2005. However, until this year, medical psychologists were not included in the state statute among the categories of health professionals authorized to prescribe psychotropic medications in the state’s public psychiatric health-care facilities. So, to preclude psychiatry from impeding medical psychologists’ ability to practice fully in these settings, the Louisiana Psychological Association helped pass a bill giving medical psychologists the explicit authorization to prescribe in state psychiatric facilities.