6521 Week 11 Assignment

6521 Week 11 Assignment

In the study of pharmacology, it has been found that certain medications can be beneficial in the treatment of conditions for which they were not originally intended. This is known as off- label use. There are certain circumstances in which the prescription of off-label medications have been proven beneficial in the pediatric population. Due to the differences in drug metabolism in children, certain medications have been shown to have positive effects other than the original intention (Rosenthal, L. D., & Burchum, J. R. 2018). Off-label medications should only be prescribed when initial prescribing has been shown to be ineffective. For example, children are prescribed medication for the treatment of ADHD, and after a time, no improvement to their symptoms have been noted. It is at a time like this when the prescriber can consider the benefits of adding an off-label medication to potentiate the effects of the initial medication prescribed