Drug therapy problem solving

The purposes of a care plan are as follows 1) to solve the existing drug therapy problems that were identified during the assessment 2) to achieve the desired outcomes for each medical condition and 3) to prevent the development of future drug therapy problems. 

Beyond using measures that assess patterns and consequences of drug use, therapists and counselors may want to consider assessing other psychosocial factors that have been shown to be important in predicting successful (or unsuccessful) therapy and treatment outcomes (as discussed in Chapter 1). There are well-established measures for measuring psychosocial factors such as expectancies, mood and emotions, self-efficacy, the ability to problem solve and use... 

Collaborative Drug Therapy Management (CDTM) The provision of pharmaceutical care in a collaborative and supportive practice environment that allows the qualified pharmacist legal, regulatory, and ethical responsibility to solve drug related problems when discovered. 

Patient education should include the anticipated length of drug therapy, potential side effects, and consequences of the ingestion of alcohol and other CNS depressants. Patients should understand that benzodiazepines provide symptomatic rehef hut do not solve underlying psychological problems. Patients should he instructed not to decrease or discontinue benzodiazepine usage without contacting their prescriber. 

Numerous problems in the construction of chnically applicable drug targeting moieties still need to be solved. Of these issues, immunogenicity after repeated administration, counterproductive hver clearance, and production 5delds are the most important. Although the problem of immunogenicity is beheved to have been solved for monoclonal antibody therapy by the development of humanized and fully human antibodies [110], for other carrier systems such as modified plasma proteins and peptide modified polymers, this remains an important issue. 

Intravenous oxygen therapy isn t the only promising line of research that was dropped with the advent of the pharmaceutical revolution. Homeopathy, herbology, electro-medicine, and a lot of other promising lines of research were thrown out. Drugs were in. That s where the research money was (and is). Drugs were going to solve all of our medical problems. 

We now know that drugs are not going to solve all of our problems. Some researchers are going back to basics and taking up research that never should have been dropped, like oxygen therapy. 

---