Navigating the Mental Health Internet

Lesson 3.6Medications

Vitually the entire PDR (Physician's Desk reference) is available online. In addition, one can access the latest research via Medline (Lesson 3.3)

Mental Health Net: Psychopharmacology and Drug References

Includes some of its own information, but also provides links to information on psychiatric medications located on other sites, including Internet Mental Health, PharmInfoNet, and RxList.

Internet Mental Health: Medications

Site designed by Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Philip Long with information about the pharmacology, indications, contraindications, warnings, adverse effects, overdose, dosage, supplied forms, and research of the most common psychiatric medications.

RxList

The material is derived from Mosby, Inc., a publisher focused on the health sciences. The database is not limited to psychiatric medications, but includes informaion on over 4000 medications including Description, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Studies, Indications and Usage, Contraindications, Warnings, Precautions, Drug Interactions, Adverse Reactions, Drug Abuse and Dependence, Overdosage, Dosage and Administration, Animal Pharmacology, Patient Information, and How Supplied. Note tha navigation aids at the top of the pages for additional information on the various drugs. The search engine on the home page locates information by drug name. It uses "fuzzy searching" to allow for spelling errors by finding close matches.

Yahoo! Health: Drugs and Medications