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Drug-resistant depression: not all patients who deserve it can benefit from drug program

MedExpress Team

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Published July 9, 2024 11:35

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The year of the first drug program for the treatment of drug-resistant depression is summarized by Professor Marcin Wojnar, head of the Department of Psychiatry, Warsaw Medical University.

Professor, I would like us to talk about patients being treated for drug-resistant depression. A drug program for this group of patients was launched last July. Can we already say what has happened over this past year?

This is a tremendous event for us, the psychiatric community nationwide, for the reason that it has brought the first drug program into our field that can finally offer patients with this thankless disease a therapeutic outlet. Patients with drug-resistant depression often do not respond to subsequent lines of treatment, the kind of standard therapeutic steps we take in treating any depression. And even combinations of different drugs don't transfer much, don't change their condition. They are often stuck in this suffering for months or even years. They are ...

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