From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow.

This is The Daily.

In his latest public health crusade, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is asking why millions of Americans

have been taking psychiatric drugs for far longer than ever intended.

I have been on Zolok since I was eight years old.

I've continuously been on antithraptus

27 years.

I've been on Louvox in 30 years.

I've been on them longer than I've not been on them.

In the process, he's highlighting an open secret in medicine

that doctors are much better at starting drug treatments than at stopping them.

I was told to take it daily, and I never questioned that.

I don't really think I even asked or thought about how long I would be on it.

I did not know that I was going to be on them for the rest of my life.

And that patients who want to end their treatment are increasingly taking matters into their own hands.

All of a sudden, I felt so strongly that my brain was like, you need to get off this medication.

Today, Ellen Berry takes us inside the growing movement to deprescribe.

It's Monday, June 22nd.

Ellen, nice to have you on the show.

Thank you for having me.

Let me just start by asking how you came to this topic of deprescribing.

And for the uninitiated, can you just define that phrase?

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