About this page
This page is PsychiatryRx's combined community guidelines, comment policy, and user content terms. It covers three things: how the site is set up today, the rules that will apply to any future comments, forums, reviews, or other reader contributions, and the terms under which contributions, if they're ever permitted, may be used by the site.
How PsychiatryRx is set up today
PsychiatryRx is a read-only educational publication. It does not currently host:
- Comments.
- Forums or message boards.
- User reviews of medications, prescribers, or treatments.
- Public profiles or accounts.
- Interactive chatbots or AI conversation tools.
The only way to send information to the site today is by email to support@psychiatryrx.org, which goes to the editorial team and isn't published.
We mention this because some readers, reasonably, expect a medication site to have a comments section or a forum. PsychiatryRx doesn't, by design. Medication discussion between strangers without clinical context can be unsafe, and we'd rather route those questions back to a prescriber than host them on the page.
Community guidelines and comment policy
If PsychiatryRx ever adds a comment section, a forum, a question-and-answer feature, a chatbot, or any other place where readers can submit content that's visible to other readers, the community guidelines and comment policy in this section will apply. We're publishing them now so the rules exist before any such feature does.
What you may not post
You may not post, submit, or upload anything that:
- Identifies a specific patient, prescriber, or other person without their consent.
- Includes your own protected health information that you would not want public. Anything you post in a public area should be treated as public and permanent.
- Asks for, or offers, a diagnosis, a prescription, or specific medical advice for a named person, including yourself.
- Promotes or arranges the sale, exchange, or transfer of prescription medications.
- Promotes self-harm, suicide, eating-disordered behaviors, substance misuse, or any other harm to yourself or others.
- Harasses, threatens, defames, or discriminates against any person or group.
- Infringes someone else's intellectual property.
- Includes commercial advertising, spam, or affiliate links.
- Impersonates a clinician, a regulator, or PsychiatryRx itself.
- Violates any law.
What we may do with what you post
PsychiatryRx may, at its discretion, remove, edit, refuse to publish, or report to authorities any contribution that violates these rules or that we believe poses a safety risk. We may also remove contributions to comply with a legal request, a court order, or a takedown notice.
We aren't obligated to review every contribution before it appears, and the fact that something appears on the site doesn't mean PsychiatryRx endorses it.
User content terms
These user content terms apply to any contribution you submit to a future interactive feature on PsychiatryRx, including comments, forum posts, reviews, ratings, questions, replies, uploaded images, or any other material.
License you grant by posting
By submitting a contribution, you grant shrinkMD Publishing, LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable license to host, display, reproduce, edit for length and clarity, translate, and distribute the contribution in connection with PsychiatryRx and related Shrink Network publications, in any media now known or later developed. You keep ownership of what you wrote. You confirm that you have the right to post it, and that posting it doesn't violate anyone else's rights.
Your responsibility for what you post
You're solely responsible for the content of your contributions and for any consequences of posting them. PsychiatryRx, shrinkMD Publishing, LLC, and the people associated with the site aren't responsible for, and don't endorse, contributions submitted by readers.
Removal and account actions
PsychiatryRx may, at its discretion and without notice, remove any contribution, suspend or terminate access to any future interactive feature, or take any other action it considers appropriate. We aren't obligated to preserve any contribution.
What contributions are not
Even when contributions are allowed, they are not:
- Medical advice. Other readers, and any clinicians who happen to participate, aren't your clinicians.
- A substitute for evaluation, diagnosis, or treatment.
- A crisis service. If you're in crisis, see the resources in our Medical disclaimer.
Reporting a problem
To report a contribution that violates these rules, or a safety concern about something on the site, write to support@psychiatryrx.org.