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Halting that would pretty much be the end of public health analysis or real-world work on medication effectiveness/adverse reactions. We do a lot of work with deidenitifed data to find health patterns in populations.
People legitimately need these drugs, including in the short term. The problem for acute stressors once they resolve is how to get them back off.