Don, you seem to have difficulties in distinguishing between the 'regulatory bodies' and what they are SUPPOSED to do, versus what they have become, in the wake of corruptible practices employed be the pharmaceutical companies, their lobbyists, the FDA, and popular political notions. Just look at that 'small' list...and ask yourself, "With all those 'regulatory bodies' protecting us, why was it necessary for Obamacare to get medical help to those who need it?

Have you watched the 'news' lately and noticed how many commercial sponsors are law firms gathering clients for large class action lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for harmful drugs, that somehow slipped by those wonderful 'regulatory bodies', into regular medical use?...or how many recalls for 'medicines' that were deemed 'safe', by 'who'???...and turned out not to be so safe after all...and look at how many of them there are???
Has it occurred to you that SOMEBODY, in those 'bodies', isn't doing their job right...OR maybe they are...depending on who they are REALLY working for!

Also, for those who don't know, or are aware of...one major difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist, is that a psychiatrist can prescribe drugs, whereas a psychologist doesn't. For years there has been a running battle in regards to that.
Psychologists see that treating patients with drugs is largely a scam that treats symptomatically, and does not address the cause, where psychiatrists, will say that the medications are necessary, easier and more convenient..........ask any child who has blown their brains out, committing suicide from the side effects of taking Ritalin!...But after all, it IS 'necessary, easier and more convenient'!
For a couple of years, I taught Math, to some students who were deemed to have ADD....some were even on regular routine of prescription drugs...Now to me, 'ADD' is another word for someone who is 'daydreaming' because they are BORED!...and do not give their attention to what they are 'supposed' to be thinking about...so they wander off into "I don't give a fuck land...I'm entertaining myself'!...and after all, thinking about what I WANT to think about isn't as hard as learning this other stuff that doesn't interest me, and that I'll probably never use, anyway!!"..............and to me, if you can't capture a child's imagination, and use it as a vehicle to learn, then you are probably a union protected teacher, more concerned with tenure and benefits, than being on the student's side, and getting him/her into the adventure of learning something that they WILL use!

For instance: You give a child a problem of, find the remainder of a sum, minus 20% etc etc..blah blah blah...
Now to incorporate imagination to the problem:...Now Susie, your Mom is giving you $40.00 to go to the store to buy some shoes and socks. When you get to the store, you see '20% off' of everything in that department...how many shoes and socks can you buy, if the shoes are $19.95 per pair, before the discount, and socks are $2.98 a pair? By the way, you can stop at the ice cream counter and buy a cone for 50 cents, if you have enough change...and give Mom the rest back.
how many pairs of shoes and socks, how much were they, can you get the cone and how much change would be left, for Mom?
It is amazing, IF you verbally give the problem, involve the kids in the conversation, and let their imagination spur them on to get the answer....AND MAKE THE CLASS AND LEARNING FUN!
.............beats shoving some Ritalin at them!..because you are inconvenienced by taking the time!..........But after all, it IS 'necessary, easier and more convenient'!
So, yes, there is a difference between the two schools of thought...and in my humble, or 'not so humble' opinion, drugs should only be used in extreme, emergency situations.....and not in place of caring and loving your child, and being involved with them..where THEY live!
As far as psychologists, those are people you go to, when you don't have a knowledgeable, caring friend..so you go to a 'professional'!
In the post industrial revolution era, priorities for humans have been re-shuffled, to accommodate the 'needs' and 'stresses' of a synthetic world of 'needs' and 'stresses'....leaves VERY little time for the nurturing of the offspring....after all, we have to 'MAKE IT' in the 'real world'....don't have time for the kid??..he's acting weird..quick get the Ritalin or other meds, so I, selfish pig that I am, don't have to be bothered! It takes too much of my time and energies!

Does that give you a perspective of the differences?

GfS

BTW, in a related topic....a child's sexual identity CAN be distorted, as early as in the womb, by mothers whose stresses are setting up the nervous systems and receptors, of the newly forming fetus'...others can be screwed up by a emotionally detached father, as the child is growing up....sometimes offending the child who cannot 'let it go'...and.......wait a minute, I could go on huge about this one for just a 'P.S.'......perhaps another post....let me know.