March Blog
Thankfully March has been a pretty calm month. I got through my two favorite modules- neurology and psychopharmacology and I found both to be fascinating. There were so many drugs that I recognized from my work as a case manager that I took for granted. Certain drugs being more or less "last-lines-of-defense" was something I definitely remembered (TCAs and MAOIs in particular), but some things like bupropion being an especially good choice for people who can previously suffered from a substance use disorder surprised me but made absolute sense in retrospect. It was also interesting to me how you could make inferences (though never absolute determinations) of where someone was on their medication journey based on what medications they were taking as even among the newer drugs there was more or less a preferred first-line, second-line, etc. of treatment. My second point kind of leads to my last point, however, in that my experience as a case manager made me realize as I was stu