Medication Management

Medication Management is an essential part of psychiatric and substance use treatment at DAPA. After your Initial Psychiatric Evaluation, our provider may prescribe you medication, suggest Psychotherapy, or a combination of both. When patients are prescribed medication, they are required to schedule follow up medication management appointments. Every medicine has a different effect on every individual and can result in a wide array of symptoms, sometimes even making your condition worse. During the follow up appointment, our provider will assess the effectiveness of the medication that you are taking and make any necessary changes to ensure that you are getting the full benefit of the medication. Medication Management appointments are a time for the patient to express the side effects and symptoms he/she has been having from taking the medication. Our provider will go over alternatives and try to find the best medication to alleviate your symptoms, while resulting in the least side effects. These medications act on the areas of the brain associated with the regulation of mood, thought patterns, and behaviors and they may reduce symptoms of a psychiatric disorder so that other treatments, such as therapy, may have a more positive outcome.