Full Description
A concise compilation of the known interactions of the most commonly prescribed drugs, as well as their interaction with nonprescription compounds. The agents covered include CNS drugs, cardiovascular drugs, antibiotics, and NSAIDs. For each class of drugs the authors review the pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, chemistry, metabolism, epidemiological occurrences, adverse reactions, and significant interactions. Environmental and social pharmacological issues are also addressed in chapters on food and alcohol drug interactions, nicotine and tobacco, and anabolic doping agents.
Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Handbook of Drug Interactions: A Clinical and Forensic Guide provides physicians with all the information needed to avoid prescribing drugs with undesirable interactions, and toxicologists with all the data necessary to interpret possible interactions between drugs found simultaneously in patient samples.
Contents
1: Drug Interactions with Benzodiazepines: Epidemiologic Correlates with Other CNS Depressants and In Vitro Correlates with Inhibitors and Inducers of Cytochrome P450 3A4.- 2: Antiepileptic Drugs.- 3: Opioids and Opiates.- 4: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors and Tricyclic Antidepressants.- 5: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.- 6: Antipsychotic Drugs and Interactions: Implications for Criminal and Civil Litigation.- 7: Cardiovascular Drugs.- 8: Antimicrobial Drugs.- 9: Drug Interactions with Medications Used for HIV/AIDS.- 10: Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs: Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors, Disease-Modiifying Antirheumatic Agents, and Drugs Used in Gout.- 11: Food and Drug Interactions.- 12: Alcohol and Drug Interactions.- 13: Nicotine and Tobacco.- 14: Anabolic Doping Agents.- 15: Drug Interaction Litigation.- 16: Psychotropic Medications and Crime: The Seasoning of the Prozac Defense.
