The Drug Bank is a new online database that provides extremely detailed, comprehensive information about prescription drugs. A project of the University of Alberta, the Drug Bank combines information ranging from chemical composition to molecular mechanisms to a variety of monographs for each drug.
If you’re looking for something slightly less technical but still detailed, a good resource for info on drugs used in psychiatry is Internet Mental Health.
Search for interactions between your medications (and foods – did you know that grapefruit juice may interfere with meds?) using one of a number of Internet tools like the handy Drugs.com drug interaction checker.
For consumers looking to share stories or ask questions, there’s also a forum at Drugs.com. It’s frequented by many consumers who may be taking the same medication as you, and by pharmacists and other health professionals.
They even offer a pill identifier service.
Another good all-round drug information site is RxList: The Internet Drug Index.
If you have a question about your medication the best person to ask is your doctor, but the answer may already be online.
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Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 27 Feb 2006
