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Psychiatric (and Other) Drug Information

Last update: 25 September 2007,
by Maureen Bell



LIST OF MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS

Aboriginal Mental Health

Administration and Policy in Mental Health

Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Phobias

Art Collections and Art Therapy

Books By or About People with a Mental Illness

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Consumers and Carers

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

Depression

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Dual Diagnosis

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry

Guidelines
- to assist with clinical treatment issues

Health Promotion (Mental Health)

Housing for People with a Mental Illness
- includes problems of homelessness

Legislation

Mental Health (General mental health sites)

Personality Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Primary Care - Mental Health

Psychiatric Drug Information

Psychiatric Nursing

PubMed (a free version of Medline) - and how to use it

Rating Scales

Rehabilitation and Recovery

Rural Mental Health

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Statistics

Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviour

Theorists and Theories

Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour

Lists of books and journal articles are available on my subject bibliographies page. Check under "Antipsychotic Agents", or other cataegories of drug, and drug therapy of major diagnostic categories eg. Depression - Drug Therapy. There are also links under Psychopharmacology, but there are no searches on individual drugs.

Library members have online access to a number of journals in this area, including

European Neuropsychopharmacology
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Human Psychopharmacology
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology
Psychopharmacology Update


APP Guide Online
The Australian Prescription Products Guide online incorporates extra reference material, such as Australian approved food additive numbers, medicines in pregnancy, patient support organisations, drug combinations and a pharmacological and therapeutic index. Consumer Medicine Information is free to browse without logging in. You must subscribe to view all other information.

Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin
Current issues in drug safety are published by Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee in the quarterly publication, the Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin.

Australian Medicines Handbook
Access is restricted. You will need your Library username and password to access this text.

Healthtouch® - Drug Information
This site enables you to find information about more than 7,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications, including common uses of a drug, the proper ways to use the medicine, possible side effects, and other helpful information. It is intended for consumers, and encourages discussion of the information with an appropriate health professional.

Internet Mental Health: Medication Research
This site provides lists of references to journal articles on a range of drugs used in psychiatry.

Internet Mental Health: Medications
Information on each medication includes Pharmacology, Indications, Contraindications, Warnings, Precautions, Adverse Effects, Overdose, Dosage, Research. The information for these drugs is from Canadian monographs. There can be differences in indications, dosage forms and warnings for these drugs in other countries.

MEDLINEplus: Drug Information
Information for consumers on a wide variety of drugs, including commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs.

Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress
From the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
From the Department of Health and Ageing, this site provides access to the Australian government's Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits.

Psychopharmacology - The Fourth Generation of Progress
From the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2000.

Psychopharmacology Tips
This site is maintained by Robert Hsiung, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry University of Chicago, who provides the following advice on the use of the information. "These tips are just that --tips -- and not (with some exceptions) the results of scientific studies. They should not be construed as providing diagnosis, medical advice, or treatment. They have worked before and might work again, but they are not necessarily generalizable and should not be applied without attention to the particular situation and the involvement of a knowledgeable physician."

RxList
RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist, and provides both professional and consumer drug information.

Texas Department of State Health Services - Texas Implementation of Medication Algorithms
The stated goal of this project is "to develop and continuously update medication algorithms and to train systems to utilize them in order to reduce the immediate and long-term emotional, physical and financial burdens of mental disorders for clients, their families, and their health care systems."