Psychotropic Drug Directory
10th September 2024
Psychotropic Drug Directory
This update contains 2 monograph revisions. Revisions: 1.4 Alcohol dependence…
Psychotropic Drug Directory
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Honorary Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia | Director, Mistura Enterprise
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Independent information, advice, and commentary on psychotropic drugs, including:
Drug treatment options for major mental health conditions, including unlicensed use
Selecting and switching psychotropics
Dose guidance
Psychotropics in complex areas
Drug interactions
Drug-induced psychiatric disorders
Managing adverse reactions
“The Psychotropic Drug Directory has been an essential reference for more than thirty years. Readers greatly value its fact-based, densely referenced text and its summary tables and figures. Being carefully updated each year, it provides comprehensive, cogent and relevant advice while maintaining its familiar core structure and organisation. The PDD remains more than ever an essential resource for prescribers and is a perfect partner to the more narrative-based Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry.”
Professor David Taylor
Professor of Psychopharmacology, King’s College, London
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10th September 2024
Psychotropic Drug Directory
This update contains 2 monograph revisions.
Revisions: 1.4 Alcohol dependence and abuse; 1.5 Alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
Minor updates: Abbreviations.
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14th May 2024
Psychotropic Drug Directory
This update contains 1 new monograph and 2 monograph corrections….
14th May 2024
Psychotropic Drug Directory
This update contains 1 new monograph and 2 monograph corrections.
New: Abbreviations.
Corrections: Cardiovascular Disease, Cytochrome P450 drug metabolism.
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12th March 2024
Psychotropic Drug Directory
The new formulations of 6 monthly paliperidone injection and the…
12th March 2024
Psychotropic Drug Directory
The new formulations of 6 monthly paliperidone injection and the risperidone once monthly injection have been added including new projections for the predicted pharmacokinetic profiles (chapter 1) and initiation and switching (chapter 2) guidance. Daridorexant has been included for insomnia (chapter 1) along with additions to its use in problem areas (chapter 3). Enhanced the information on the use of esketamine in depression (chapter 1) and added information on the use of other psychedelics in chapter 1 and 4. The withdrawal of antidepressants (chapter 2) was reviewed following the release of new guidance on that topic.
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