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Introduction top

There is a vast amount of information on the Internet about (psycho)pharmaceuticals and pharmacotherapy, but generally a specific medication for specific category of medications is not the main focus.

We have therefore chosen to approach the subject from several directions:

  • Categories of medications by disorder (depression, etc.),
  • Specific problems (side effects, etc.), and
  • Organizations (e.g., government, professional associations).

You can however often find information about a specific medication within the category to which it belongs. If you are looking for specific information (side effects, etc.) about a specific medication, you can naturally also began with that topic.

Information regarding particular categories of psychopharmaceuticals can also be found on the websites of various disorders. Thus there is a lot of information about antipsychotics on websites about schizophrenia. We list such sites within the drug categories (in this case antipsychotics) if the information about pharmaceuticals is distinct from the information about the disorder.

This topic is under construction. Eventually you will also find links to good sites in the following areas:

  • Pharmaceutical care,
  • nonprescription medications,
  • Education and training, and
  • Psychostimulants.

Official product informationtop


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General informationtop

  • Electronic Orange Book

    The Orange Book comprises information about drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

  • MEDLINEplus: Drug Information

    A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Short and clear information on more than 9.000 medicines, based on the USP.

  • Medscape DrugInfo

    This comprehensive drug database is based on a collaboration by the First DataBank, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and Medscape.

  • Psychotropics on-line

    An usefull psychotropics drug database by the Lundbeck Institute, sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Lundbeck. The offered information is independent.

  • The Merck Manual - Online Textbook

    The world's most widely used medical textbook. 


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Dementiatop


Depressiontop


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Metabolism and drug interactionstop

  • Drug interactions checker from Drug Digest

    A fast interactions checker from Drug Digest. 

  • Drugs.com interaction checker

    Drugs.com also provides access to an interactions checker.

  • Drug Interactions Checker

    The Medscape interactions checker is useful in cases of multiple drug use. Requires (free) Medscape registration.

  • Cytochrome table made by Flockhart

    This cytochrome metabolism table provided by Flockhart gives a nice overview of the functioning of the cytochrome enzymes: substrates, inhibition, and induction. Clicking on the compounds links you directly to the background articles.

  • switchwiki.eu

    Switchtables antidepressants, antipsychotics, table combining moodstabilizers and benzo convertor.


Pregnancy and lactationtop


Addictiontop

  • Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group

    The Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group reviews very scientifically the evidence of treatments related to the addiction of alcohol.

  • Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group

    The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group reviews very scientifically the evidence of treatments related to the addiction of tobacco.


Patient informationtop


New drugs 2009top

  • Asenapine

    Asenapine (Trade Mark: Saphris) has been registered in August 2009 by the FDA: psychosis and bipolar disorder.


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Pharmaco-economics & Pharmaco-epidemiologytop


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