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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Family Practice and Internal Medicine doctors are "scheduled" to prescribe these medications, and the DEA does not track how many prescriptions non- psychiatrists give for depression.
If only psychiatrists and psychologists (in states that give prescribing rights to pyschologists) were the only people able to treat mental illness, then there would be a lot of people with no access to mental health care. There are many areas with few psychiatrist. These practitioners stay full for appointments. Any physician who is willing to follow the outcome of a disease can appropriately prescribe these medications. The side effects are very rare for this class of medications, and I'm sure a board certified physician can assess for those effects as well as a psychiatrist. As for whether every person with depression should get "talk therapy," that's the ideal but not the practical solution to a very common disease.
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This is a new development for me, I did not know this...
Maybe they take an extra duty or CME course to prescribe these drugs... Because in my opinion, there must be some "telltale" signs to "stave off symptoms" or "satisfy" until there is full diagnosis??? I don't know?
The FDA may need to track these drugs now because these days, with kids committing suicide on these medications...
Actually, the blood tests to monitor the effectiveness of these drugs is a different issue but also plays a role on the side effects. Some side effects are not a rare as one would think: such as buproprion, lamotragine, amitryptaline or olanzapine. SOME Family physicians do not pick up these symptoms or care... This comes with experience in the field.
And "talk therapy" may be impractical for many, but when the patient is an adult, the nature of these illnesses and why the behave the way they do, at this time and the only course of research that has been shown effective. Drugs cannot do this alone. And none of these classes of illnesses have been show to be directly caused by infection, yet...