Classes of Medication
Used to treat psychosis, schizophrenia and mania
What is an antipsychotic?
This population is at a 5 times greater risk to be prescribed medication?
Ask your doctor if you can slowly be weaned off of your medication.
What is stepping down from taking medication?
Unexplained change in personality or attitude, sudden mood swings, irritability
What is a PSYCHOLOGICAL warning sign?
Used to treat bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder
What is a mood stabilizer?
The use of a prescription medication in a way not intended by the prescribing doctor
What is medication abuse?
In person, the pharmacy, online, by mail, by phone
What is a way to get a prescription filled?
Bloodshot eyes, pupils larger or smaller than usual, changes in appetite
What is a PHYSICAL warning sign?
Used to treat disparate disorders such as clinical depression
What is an antidepressant?
Changes in appetite, sleep disturbances, drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue, weight gain.
What are risks of taking medication?
Moods that affect your mood, thinking, and behavior.
What is mental illness?
Drop in attendance and performance at work or school, sudden change in friends, favorite hangouts, and hobbies
What is a BEHAVIORAL warning sign?
Used to treat anxiety disorders
What is an anxiolytic?
the helpful effects you get, such as easing pain, controlling blood sugar, lowering blood pressure, or curing an infection.
What is the benefit of taking medication?
A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutic or psychotropic drug or medication is a chemical substance that crosses the blood-brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior.
What is a psychotrophic med?
Unusual smells on breath, body, or clothing, or impaired coordination
What is a PHYSICAL warning sign?
Used to treat disorders such as attention deficit disorder and narcolepsy and to suppress the appetite
What is a stimulant?
The use of psychotropic medications with children and adolescents must be informed by two critical issues
What is safety and diversity?
Join insurance or drug assistance program, Switch to generics, Review your medications, purchase medication online, consider a prescription mail-order service.
How can you lower medication costs?
Spaced out, anger outbursts, appears fearful, anxious, or paranoid, with no reason
What is a PSYCHOLOGICAL warning sign?