This is CONDITION RED for my family as one of the antipsychotics on this list returned a member to sanity from a deeply psychotic condition in the past few months. Numerous other antipsychotics (whether cheap or expensive) had failed.
I am so sorry to hear how this is impacting you and yours. This is exactly the problem with having the government deciding what a doctor should be deciding.
All of those who claimed they would repeal Ocare and haven’t offered legislation should be turned out on their ears
Some insurance protocols will cover the rarer drugs if more common ones are unsuccessfully tested first. But then the protocols are often wooden. Even if the patient has tested the unsuccessful drugs in the past, they have to be tested again, once on a particular policy.
If you’re referring to one of Abilify and Seroquel, both can be procured from pharmaceutical manufacturers overseas, in generic equivalents (around $1 a dose). But you probably won’t have to.