What is it about?
This brief article is an interview with a noted artist who shares her journey into and out of addiction to a physician prescribed medication.
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Why is it important?
The article expands our awareness on the intra personal, socio-political interface of self-withdrawal from a physician prescribed medication with psychoactive properties. The challenges of self-withdrawal are outlined in detail. The interviewee mentions the shared responsibility for addiction both by patient and healthcare provider alike.
Perspectives
The interviewee clearly indicates that not all addiction can successfully be overcome alone. However, the journey out of addiction by the case discussed herein raises the need for further research into preconditions for successfull self-withdrawal.
Brent Green
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This page is a summary of: Self-motivated withdrawal from physician prescribed medications as an artist's creative act: an interview with Ms. Lorel J. Michel, artist, International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1397934.
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