Psych Drugs & Medications: Psychiatric Meds Guide app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 6048 ratings )
Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: Michael Quach
Free
Current version: 2.4.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 10 Sep 2009
App size: 8.91 Mb

Want to learn about psychotropic medications quickly and easily? Then check out this free app!

With Psych Drugs, you can learn important and useful information about various psychotropic medications such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and anti-anxiety medications.

Some major classes of psych drugs include: SSRIs, TCAs, MAOIs, second generation (atypical) antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and meds for insomnia, anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcohol dependence, opioid dependence and nicotine addiction, etc…

For each medication, you will find:

- Generic name
- Brand name
- Class
- Indications
- Dosage forms
- Maximum daily dose for adults
- Maximum daily dose for children
- Half-life
- Side effects

This useful app is ideal for medical and mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students, psychology students, therapists, counselors, and of course curious lay people who just want to familiarize themselves with psychotropic medications.

App Features:

- Scroll alphabetically or use the A-Z side panel.
- Find a drug quickly via search bar function.
- Tap on the drug to learn about it.
- Save your favorites with a touch of a button.
- Share drug info with a friend via email.

Great reviews by our loyal users:

"Was a good, informative, useful app for mental health workers. Since update...Now it is excellent!"

"Best ever! This app opened my eyes to more things!"

"Awesome! Love this app!"

"Really neat app for people taking psych meds and going into the medical field."

"I work in mental health and its so easy to just slide through an alphabetical list and get a quick and dirty run down on the med. Great app!"

Legal disclaimer: Please understand that the intended use of this application is as an educational aid and does not cover all possible uses, actions, precautions, side effects, or interactions of any of these medications. This information is not intended as medical advice for individual problems or for making an evaluation as to the risks and benefits of taking a particular medication. The information here should not be used as a substitute for a consultation or visit with your psychiatrist, family physician or other health care provider. You should consult with a licensed physician for answers to any questions you may have about these or other medications. This application provides the information content on an as is and as available basis. No warranty is expressed or implied that this application is a comprehensive source of information on any topic of health or otherwise. In no event shall the creator of this application be liable in any manner for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access, use or inability to use this application, or any errors or omissions in the information on this application. This application reserves the right at any time and from time to time to add, change, modify, update, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this application (or any part thereof) with or without notice. This application shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any addition, modification, suspension or discontinuance of this application.

Pros and cons of Psych Drugs & Medications: Psychiatric Meds Guide app for iPhone and iPad

Psych Drugs & Medications: Psychiatric Meds Guide app good for

This is a very informative app on the most common psychoactive drugs, with generic names, daily doses, side effects, and more.
It cant be a bad app. The only thing to improve is to put categories for drugs, its easier to search...
Highly recommended app for a quick info, app has a huge data base and accurate drugs info.Good job !
This is a good quick reference source for students taking Psychology courses.
I work in a group home and this is very helpful when a clients asked about their medication! It would be neat to include a picture maybe of the drug also
I agree with other reviews that there are improvements and updates that could be made, but all in all, Im pretty impressed. Pictures, cross interactions, and common off-label uses would be amazing. Also, definitely a few common meds (such as Intuniv) are missing, so an update would be nice. Still, cant complain!

Some bad moments

MINIMAL info!!! Great concept but the amount of information given renders this app useless. Broaden to at least include administering dose instructions. Things like, take with food, do not drive, do not take within 2 hours of other medications, list any vitamins, cold meds, antacids (etc.) that may not mix well together. There is so much more general info that could easily be included! I will know delete.....
Oh no! In this era of raised awareness of the side effects of psych drugs it is surprising to see someone create an app which gives no warnings of what these drugs can do. Mr. Quach, the "curious layman" will be looking at these data and they are completely lacking in what the layman (or anyone) needs to know before they take the risk of getting involved in psych drugs. A legal waiver is no excuse.
They may have a lot of information on here, but they are missing some very common drugs and the information on several of them is completely inaccurate. So its not necessarily a trustworthy app.
Easy to navigate but only has one function - finding drugs by name. It would be nice if you could search by class or some other method. The drug list is far from comprehensive and the explanations are quite limited. With this said, the app is free so I cant bee too disappointed.
Has an extensive list of psychiatric drugs but only provides a very brief description of each. (Name, what it treats, some possible side effects) its quick and easy. If you want a more in depth description and possible interactions, Id choose a different app

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