The Importance of Medication Management and How We Can Help

Every year, billions of medication prescriptions are written in the United States, including many medications focused on managing mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. 

While there’s no doubt medicine is a powerful ally in managing these conditions and helping people stay healthy, it’s also true that medication mistakes can prove dangerous and even life-threatening.

At The Marcann Group, our team offers medication management services to help you get the most from your medical therapies while reducing the risk of complications. If your mental health therapy includes medication, learn why medication management is important and how we can help.

Medication management: The basics

Medications play a key role in mental health treatment, relieving symptoms and improving overall quality of life while improving the effectiveness of other forms of therapy. 

Although there are more options than ever for managing mental health concerns, medications can affect people in different ways, making it more challenging to find a therapy that works.

Medication management helps optimize mental health therapy by actively tracking each person’s therapy and monitoring the dosing and effects of medication to fine-tune therapy and ensure each patient gets the most benefits from their care.

Medication management is essential for anyone taking more than one medication, those who use over-the-counter supplements, and for people embarking on a new therapy. It’s also critical for older people, young patients, and people with underlying medical issues that could potentially interfere with a medication.

Benefits of medication management

Optimizing therapy for each person’s unique and evolving needs is a crucial benefit of medication management. As you progress through treatment, your dose may benefit from adjustments to meet those needs, or your needs might change. 

Medication management supports the “5 rights” of medication dispensing: the right medication for the right patient, given at the right time using the right dose and the right route (for instance, oral or IV). But it offers other benefits, too.

Reduce side effects

Some medications can cause side effects, like headaches, nausea, constipation, or dry mouth. Medication management adjusts your dose to reduce or avoid unpleasant side effects.

Improve compliance

Compliance simply means making it easy to stick to your medication routine so you can enjoy the benefits. Reducing or eliminating side effects is one way, but we can also help you find other avenues to improve compliance, like using reminders or simplifying your medication regimen, especially if you’re using more than one medication.

Prevent complications and risks

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are unpleasant or unwanted effects of a drug. While some ADRs can be minor annoyances, others pose serious health risks. Medication management tracks your medications, ensuring your dosing and other factors are continually fine-tuned to your needs and focused on achieving optimal outcomes.

Optimize the benefits of your therapy

Our team offers medication management as an outpatient service via our mobile therapy services. To learn more about medication management and how it can help you get the most from your therapy, book an appointment online or over the phone with our team at The Marcann Group today. We have three locations in the Greater Phoenix area.