Abilify MyCite is for patients with depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia—and it is colliding with a long history of paternalistic attitudes about mental illness.
Given that baggage, making Abilify MyCite the first-ever medicine to contain a digital tracker was a revealing choice. “Of all medications they could pick, it’s curious they’d pick a medication that’s given to people who often struggle with paranoid feelings, who worry they’re being surveilled and watched,” says Lisa Cosgrove, a clinical psychology professor and an Applied Ethics Center fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
. And it could pit users’ word against the app’s—if a doctor notices a user hasn’t taken their meds, but it’s a glitch in the tech, whom will they believe?And though Abilify MyCite is marketed as a way to improve patients’ ability to remember their meds, there’s not actually any evidence it does that.
about how she works with patients to determine care plans and if she’s considered prescribing MyCite to help patients take their meds. “I can’t think of any circumstance where I’d ever consider prescribing this,” she said.
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