"There are things like certain chemotherapy drugs that you need a specific drug for a specific indication or reason. And so if that drug is not being manufactured or is being, you know, doled out based on patient need or patient severity, that could be, you know, life-altering and potentially deadly for a patient,"Sarah Anderson, PharmD, a professor at Skagg School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences told Newsy.
"For someone to be a candidate for deep brain stimulation, we want them to have tried all the standard therapies and to have had those not work," explains Dr. Rachel Davis, a psychiatrist at UCHealth and director of the OCD Clinic at CU Anschutz. "They need to have tried the medications that are standard for OCD. So medications that work on serotonin. They need to have tried an antipsychotic, a benzodiazepine, and they need to have done at least 20 sessions of exposure and response prevention with a therapist who's familiar with treating OCD."
"For someone to be a candidate for deep brain stimulation, we want them to have tried all the standard therapies and to have had those not work," explains Dr. Rachel Davis, a psychiatrist at UCHealth and director of the OCD Clinic at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. "They need to have tried the medications that are standard for OCD. So medications that work on serotonin. They need to have tried an antipsychotic, a benzodiazepine, and they need to have done at least 20 sessions of exposure and response prevention with a therapist who's familiar with treating OCD."
