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Blair Heath

Blair Heath

Child and adolescent psychiatrist at Headlight Health; DO, PharmD, RD with expertise in psychiatric medication management, eating disorders, and psychopharmacology.

Jun 19, 2026

11:21
Divalproex immediate release produces the same side effects but produces them about twice as often as the extended release formulation of, uh, divalproex ER.
11:37
Thank you.
11:37
And one of the biggest thing I know you get a lot of questions about that's really helpful is a lot of us will get a really difficult patient that they'll come to us on multiple controls.
11:47
They might be on one or even two benzodiazepines and a, you know, stimulant and then they're, "This is, uh, this is my last dose," and you're worried about withdrawal seizures or, you know, you don't want to take on this patient, but then you feel Uh, some degree of, I wanna say, responsibility or even liability if you don't prescribe or continue the regimen.
12:10
How do you approach, you know, that situation?

7 MINS LATER

18:44
They're not dangerous," that goes a long way toward making the medication more tolerable.
18:50
Yeah.
18:50
I, I had a patient that was, uh, actually I found here in, in the hospital, and I called him like, I'm like, "Oh.

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