Drug Interactions

If you’re seeing patients taking psychotropic medications, or if you’re taking psychotropics yourself, it’s worth having a working knowledge of what happens when drugs enter the system and what their effects are on other drugs and even foodstuffs that are also consumed. Interactions occur when the actions of one drug (the precipitant drug) affects the activity of another (the object drug) when both are administered together. Actions can be synergistic (when the object drug’s activity is increased) or antagonistic (when [...]