drugs evaluation

• give pros of drugs to treat ocd?

  • JULIEN 2007- Research shown between 50-80% of patients show a reduction of OCD symptoms
  • Compared to the use of placebo in 3037 patients in 17 studies and they are found to be significantly more effective (SOOMRO 2008)
  • Relatively cheap treatment
• give cons of drugs to treat ocd?

  • only treat symptoms - dont cure OCD
  • Side effectrs: suicidal thinking, insomnia
• give more cons of drugs to treat ocd?

  • do they treat obsessive symptoms or the depressive ones that are associated with the disorder
  • the drugs have a relatively instant effect (within hours) on serotonin levels but the effect on the OCD symptoms takes much longer
• what did Julien find??

  • JULIEN - Research shown between 50-80% of patients show a reduction of OCD symptoms
• give a pro of drug use?

  relatively cheap treatment
• what did Soomro do??

  Compared to the use of placebo in 3037 patients in 17 studies and they are found to be significantly more effective
• Which 2 researchers showed positives of drug use ?


  Julien, Soomro