There are many roads we can travel with our medications. We can keep adding medications as the number of health problems we develop increases. We can stop taking medications as the side effects of these medications compound, or when our symptoms ameliorate. Once we start on a medication pathway, there are consequences. Despite that, very […]
Category: antidepressants
Excess prescribing of pharmaceuticals is a nightmare for both patients and prescribers. It’s much easier to add one medication after another than to take a patient off any. After all, if one is good, aren’t two or three better? And in countries that lack robust primary care, multiple specialists may prescribe multiple medications without any cross referencing. […]
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