States should help combat a shortage of mental health services by allowing psychologists to prescribe medications for mental health patients, a fellow at the CATO Institute recommends in a recent policy paper, noting that 45 states currently ban psychologists from prescribing such drugs. The recommendation comes as telehealth lobbyists press Congress and the Biden administration to extend a pandemic waiver that has allowed telehealth prescribing of controlled substance medications to treat mental health and substance disorder patients. The briefing paper,...