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Psychiatric Drug Reference
Psychopharmacopeia.com is a progressive web application aimed at providing clinicians with fast access to psychiatric drug information.
Quickly find indications (including off-label), dosing, side effects, clinically useful pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic information, drug-drug interactions, and prescribing pearls for special populations i.e. pregnant, lactating, patients with renal or hepatic impairment, elderly, etc. At last, a virtual Rolodex of psychopharm information, accessible anywhere and across devices.
106 Drugs So Far!
This site is being updated almost daily. Droperidol is our most recent addition to the rapidly growing drug database.
Search for Drugs by Mechanism of Action or Diagnosis
We now offer three separate tables in addition to the search bar, two sorted by mechanism of action (brand and generic), and a third new table organized by diagnoses (FDA-indicated and "off-label").
Potencies of Antipsychotic Drugs at Various Receptors
Ever want the ability quickly sort antipsychotic drugs by their affinities at various receptors? If so, this table is for you! A similar table for antidepressants is under construction!
Concerned about QT prolongation when prescribing psychiatric medications?
Check out our new QT reference page with tables summarizing QT prolongation risk factors, including medication tables for both psych and non-psych meds (with comparison of high vs low risk of QT prolongation of various classes of psych meds).
Psychopharm Trivia
Clomipramine, the last of the major TCAs to come to market, was considered to be the most powerful antidepressant ever made. Initially, the FDA regarded it as another 'me-too' drug, and accordingly, they did not license it. Subsequently, however, it was licensed for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Preventing Drug-Drug Interactions
All drugs in the psychopharm database populate our CYP450 table, organized into substrates, inhibitors, and inducers of the major CYP pathways (1A2, 2D6, 2C9/C19, 3A4).