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Most people take an antidepressant (for a mental health problem) as the result of stressors in their life that they do not have coping skills to handle. Studies and data analyses document that over 80% of antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs are written by general medical doctors. For most employers, between 15% and 20% of their members under the health plan will have filled scripts for one or more different target drugs in a recent 12-month period.
Most medical doctors are not aware of the withdrawal symptoms associated with stopping the use of antidepressants. What seems like a relapse of a depressive disorder is in fact a withdrawal symptom resulting from the patient stopping their medication. This leads to a recommendation of long-term drug therapy from the medical doctor when not necessary. They should be combining short-term psychotherapy with the drug therapy; the cause of the problem is than being treated along with the symptom.
An EAP psychotherapy intervention is proven to improve outcomes, reduce targeted drug-spend by up to 30%, increase EAP utilization by over 200%, and decrease medical claims (initial study by over 29%) for those who participated.