Monotherapy vs Polytherapy

Monotherapy is the use of a single drug to address a health condition.

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Generally speaking, the way parts of modern medicine work is the (true/false) idea that a single chemical will help alleviate a certain health condition.

Since it costs a great deal of money to create a drug, the drug is often a single chemical.

If the drug has additional ingredients added to it, it is considered a new drug subject to the same, very expensive drug approval process.

Bottomline, this increases the research costs as well as the eventual cost of the drug to consumers.

What this often means is that an ideal drug is not developed due to costs and a single ingredient is presented to the customers as the complete answer.

In my own life, I discovered that a single drug (Tirend, a FDA approved alertness aid containing caffeine - 100 mg) works for my Inattentive ADHD from birth.

Looking closely at the Tirend formula of 15 ingredients, not just 1,  I am aware that in addition to the caffeine as the primary ingredient there were two other, maybe even more ingredients which, in me, were a part of the positive response I have to the medicine Tirend.

So while Tirend is considered monotherapy, in reality it is technically polytherapy.

https://cthomaswildadhd.blogspot.com/2020/08/monotherapy-vs-polytherapy.html

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X-ref:

- Brand name medicine vs Brand name medicine
- Brand name medicine vs Generic medicine

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Why is it so hard for some people to concentrate?

Partial answers follow:

Productive Reading - Insights Into Attentional Control - Neurology:

- Remarkable Medicine book (Dreyfus)
- How To (Temporarily) Cure Hyperactivity book (about Inattentive ADHD relief) (Wild)
- The Hyperactive Child book (Renshaw)
- Nerves in Collision book (Alvarez)

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