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Re:US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime... by chownie on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:17PM (#37852385)
Both of these sources are over ten years old and refer to diagnostic criteria defined in 2007, this is not the state of the world today.
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Re:US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime... by btilly on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @10:39PM (#37852905)
Can you show any research indicating that it is not easy to fake with current diagnostic criteria?
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Re:US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime... by chownie on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:59AM (#37857236)
Nope!

There's nothing published along those lines, given the criteria were updated in 2017 there's been plenty of time to test the prior methods again but either no one's tried or the results werent exciting enough to publish.

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Re:US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime... by btilly on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:06AM (#37858239)
Which means that there is no particular reason to believe that it can't still be faked. Given the nature of the disorder, it is hard to see how it could be otherwise.

Given the rate at which prescriptions are being handed out, it is extremely unlikely that they are only giving prescriptions to people who actually have the disorder.

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