Stephen Bazire is Chief Pharmacist for Norfolk and
Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust,
based at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich, England. He
is also Honorary Professor, School of Chemistry and
Pharmacy, University of East Anglia and Visiting Fellow at
the School of Life and Health Sciences (Pharmaceutical
Sciences), Aston University, Birmingham.
Over the years, the Psychotropic Drug Directory
has become recognised as an invaluable tool for
psychiatrists, trainee psychiatrists and pharmacists,
and has helped to raise the profile of mental health
care by assisting healthcare workers in their day-today
management and treatment of patients suffering
from a mental health disorder. The text is unique in
its coverage of all relevant references to individual drugs and, in turn, their individual interactions, as
well as defining the different drugs available for
specific conditions. The in-depth analysis of sideeffects
that may be experienced has served to guide
practitioners in their prescribing, thereby ensuring
that patients receive the best possible care, with the
minimum of discomfort.
This new edition of the Psychotropic Drug Directory
again provides for professional practicing clinicians, a
source of rapidly accessible information, advice and
references on psychiatric disordrs. Along with chapters
covering drug treatment options in psychiatric illness;
selecting drugs, doses and preparations; psychotropics
in problem areas; drug interactions; drug-induced
psychiatric disorders, this edition sees a completely
new chapter on the management of side-effects, where
the main option is to manage that side-effect, rather
than switch drugs.
The book is entering and embracing a new era in
mental health, and offers its readers an insight into
the research and development taking place, as well
as encouraging the positive, optimal and rational
use of medicines to improve the quality of life for
people with mental health needs.
Price: £24.99
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Psychotropic Drug Directory, 2007