You're asking about the issue of compliance when medications are prescribed. Most of the time when the medications are prescribed, they're for symptom improvement. I suppose you could draw an analogy between this and giving someone a Tylenol for a headache. They are free not to take the Tylenol and have a headache. The question is whether that headache will impair their functioning, and that's what I look at.
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