Disclosure and how PsychiatryRx works

How the site is funded, and how its affiliations are handled.

No ads, nothing for sale

PsychiatryRx carries no advertising. It sells no products. It takes no affiliate commissions and no referral fees from any practice, pharmacy, or service it mentions. There is no financial reason for the site to tell you anything other than what the evidence says.

Who publishes it

PsychiatryRx is published by shrinkMD Publishing and is editorially independent of any clinical practice.

The affiliation we disclose

The site's medical editor, Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, is the founder of shrinkMD, an independent multistate telepsychiatry practice. We state that plainly, because it matters.

Most pages on PsychiatryRx have nothing to do with shrinkMD. The medication guides, comparisons, and class pages discuss medications, not providers. Where a guide does touch on getting care, for example a guide about finding medication management, telepsychiatry providers including shrinkMD may be listed as one option among several. In those places PsychiatryRx does not recommend one provider over another, and it earns nothing whether or not you choose any of them.

Why we handle it this way

A medication resource is only useful if you can trust it, and trust depends on knowing where information comes from and who stands behind it. Disclosing the shrinkMD affiliation openly, rather than burying it, is how the site stays worth reading. If you ever feel a page crosses the line from informing you into selling to you, tell us through the contact link in the footer.

This guide is for general education. It is not medical advice and is not a substitute for evaluation, diagnosis, or treatment by a qualified clinician. Never start, stop, or change a medication without talking to your prescriber. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 in the U.S. to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.