drugcentered
Drugcentered is a term used in pharmacology, psychiatry, and medical ethics to describe a treatment framework that emphasizes the effects and role of medications in managing symptoms rather than targeting the disease’s underlying causes. In this usage, drugs are treated as tools that induce characteristic alterations in brain function, cognition, or mood, which can relieve symptoms, rather than as agents that cure a disease process.
The drug-centered model is typically contrasted with the disease-centered model, in which pharmacotherapy is seen as
The term is most often discussed in academic analyses of psychiatry and pharmacotherapy, though it has applicability
Notes: Drugcentered is sometimes used interchangeably with drug-centered, with the one-word form appearing in certain databases