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Re:Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ ... by jonathankoren on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:27PM (#35098715)
> I've never heard of Cerebral before (and hopefully I won't again), but that likely means that their customers are the hospitals.

Cerebral is a mental health therapy app, but unlike most apps, they also prescribed medicine until very recently. They stopped after the FDA started investigating them for being a pill mill for schedule II controlled substances like adderall (ie amphetamine salts)

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063356/cerebral-teleheal...

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Re:Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ ... by matheusmoreira on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:43PM (#35098990)
A corporation prescribing amphetamines? No doctors involved at all? How is that possible?
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Re:Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ ... by prepend on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:01PM (#35099279)
Doctors were involved all right, thus the “pill mill” part.
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