Categories of Medication
These medications are commonly used to treat depression.
What are antidepressants
How often or how many times during the day you take a medication.
What is frequency?
Side effects that are typically more common and less worrisome, such as indigestion or tiredness.
What are mild side effects?
A place where you can find everything you need to know about your medication.
What is the medication label?
ALL drugs have these, which are unintended reactions to taking it.
What are side effects?
These medications help to reduce the symptoms of anxiety, such as panic attacks, or extreme fear and worry.
What are Anti-Anxiety medications?
How much of a medication you take, usually in milligrams.
What is dosage?
You should do this when experiencing severe side effects.
What is consulting your doctor?
A place you should never store your medications above due to them being ruined by steam.
What is the kitchen sink?
Medications you can purchase on the shelf at a store.
What are OTC or Over The Counter medications.
These medicines are primarily used to manage psychosis
What are Antipsychotics?
A date that the medication is no longer considered usable or good.
What is the expiration date?
True or False
Only prescription drugs have side effects.
What is False?
You do this when you have questions about your medication at the pharmacy.
What is consulting the pharmacist?
Medication that needs a written order from the doctor.
What is a prescription medication.
These medications are used primarily to treat bipolar disorder, mood swings associated with other mental disorders, and in some cases, to augment the effect of other medications used to treat depression.
What are mood stabilizers?
How you take the medication. By mouth, injection etc.
What is route of administration?
While side effects that occur in 1 out of 10 people are considered very common, side effects that occur in 1 out of 10000 people are considered very what?
What is rare?
When your medication is past your expiration date, you should do this with it.
What is dispose of your medication?
A medication used to treat bacterial infections that needs to be taken in full, even if you start to feel better shortly after taking it.
What is an Antibiotic?
As the name suggests, these medications increase alertness, attention, and energy, as well as elevate blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration
What are Stimulants?
List of possibly unintended reactions to the medication, either mild or severe.
What are side effects?
A possibly permeant side effect of antipsychotic medications.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
A place you can store your medications that also shows the days of the week?
Medication organizer
When a doctor prescribes you a new medication, you should ask this question to figure out why you need to take it.
What is... What is this medication for?