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Definition: Adjunctive therapy refers to any treatment that is used in conjunction with another to increase the chance of cure, or to increase the first treatment's efficacy. In other words, adjunctive therapy acts as an aid to the primary treatment

Adjunctive therapy is used in epilepsy, depression etc.

Ecamples:
Recently, evidence has shown that adjunctive therapy with atypical antipsychotics has the potential for beneficial antidepressant effects in the absence of psychotic symptoms. In particular, aripiprazole has shown efficacy as an augmentation option with standard antidepressant therapy in two, large, randomized, double-blind studies. Based on these efficacy and safety data, aripiprazole was recently approved by the FDA as adjunctive therapy for MDD (Major depressive disorder )

Adjunct can mean to "join together" or to "combine," and adjunctive therapy is an additional or secondary therapy combined with a primary treatment that increases effectiveness in treating a condition. Medical practitioners use adjunctive therapy frequently to get better cure rates or a faster response to primary treatment. It can take many different forms. Some adjunct therapy involves using more than one medicine to treat something. Other times, several different treatment strategies or types or care are employed simultaneously.

When it comes to drug adjunctive therapy, there are numerous available examples. Often, people will be on a primary asthma medication that isn’t fully controlling their symptoms. In these instances, doctors could consider prescribing a second medication to better treatment symptoms, like combining the use of a fast acting inhaler with a steroid inhaler. A few companies even combine two medicines in single inhalers that have been shown to be more effective together than alone.

In certain instances, a second medicine doesn’t treat the primary condition but actually makes the first medicine work more effectively. Some antibiotics work in this manner and a resistant infection might be treated with two types of antibiotics at once, each contributing to the efficiency of the other. A few mood stabilizing drugs work in a similar way, where the use of a second as adjunctive therapy actually increases the efficacy of the first, possibly raising its blood concentration level or making it easier to absorb.

Unfortunately, such controls are not always practical, effective, or indicated, and thus supplemental medical treatment is often required

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