Mad in America
MARCH 27, 2024
Our results showed that whilst short-term follow-ups (<2 years) on social functioning did not yield significant differences between maintenance and discontinuation, middle- and long-term follow-ups significantly favored discontinuation,” the researchers write. Only 8% of the RCTs were rated as at low risk of bias.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. But that’s not how the continual maintenance practice actually came about. Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Work Life
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 14, 2023
Through the 1990s, I was dismayed that the influence of pharmaceutical marketing had seemed to suppress that idea, as polypharmacy and use of higher doses of drugs became part of accepted practice. They found that, despite the slower taper, there was still a higher risk of relapse in the taper group than in the maintenance group.
Mad in America
JUNE 27, 2024
I n Part 1 , I looked at the longer-term inefficacy of ‘maintenance treatment’ with antipsychotics, and also at some ‘disappointing’ outcomes for ‘early intervention in psychosis’ (EIP). Greater education on the drug interactions and risks of pharmaceutical psychotropics, for both prescribers and patients, is required.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 2, 2023
135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.
Inside Workplace Wellness
AUGUST 1, 2018
Chronic care maintenance drugs for some conditions have no cost share. Does your PBM require providers to use NDC coding for Specialty Pharmaceuticals to improve monitoring and tracking of utilization? Use of coupon cards is banned. Accumulator programs will be applied. 3 Evaluate your contract terms.
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