How do psychiatrists know if the patients aren’t lying about their symptoms?

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For example, how an psychiatrist know if his patient is lying about his symptoms to just get amphetamine or benzodiazepine for recreational purposes?

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They can query state databases and look for certain other red flags that someone is drug seeking, but there’s not really any way to know for sure. Amphetamines and benzodiazepines are very commonly abused and diverted. That being said, if somebody just wants to get high it’s generally a lot easier to buy drugs from somewhere else than to spend months waiting to get an appointment with a psychiatrist.

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