Re: recent new york times article on antipsycotics

Posted by jono_in_adelaide on September 27, 2012, at 18:17:59

In reply to Re: recent new york times article on antipsycotics » jono_in_adelaide, posted by SLS on September 27, 2012, at 17:43:08

SLS - An Australian Professor of Psychiatry who runs the Black Dog Institurte said on his site that he often does exactly that - gives a benzo or an atypical for a few weeks at the start of therapy to get the patient through the first few weeks, then quickly tapers it off.
I also think that mirtazapine could serve well in many of the off lable applications for atypicals in nonpsychotic disorders, it shares the properties they manifest in the low doses typicaly used (sedation, releif of anxiety and depression through blocking the 5HT2 receptors)
Not sure why it isnt more widely used in these situations (well, I do, its off patent, so noone is promoting it to doctors)

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