What are the categories of psychotropic drugs?
There are five main types of psychotropic medications: antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers. Antidepressants are used to treat depression. There are many different types of antidepressants.
What are psychiatric drugs made of?
Thus, these medications are used to treat mental illnesses. These medications are typically made of synthetic chemical compounds and are usually prescribed in psychiatric settings, potentially involuntarily during commitment.
How are psychiatric drugs classified?
According to the ATC classification, psychotropic drugs are generally considered to belong only to one of five classes: antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics, hypnotics, and mood stabilizers. However, these classes fail to account for different recently approved psychotropic agents.
What are antipsychotic meds?
Formerly known as major tranquilizers and neuroleptics, antipsychotic medications are the main class of drugs used to treat people with schizophrenia. They are also used to treat people with psychosis that occurs in bipolar disorder, depression and Alzheimer’s disease.
What drug starts with an H?
These are the most commonly prescribed drugs beginning with the letter ‘H’.
- Hydrocodone / Acetaminophen.
- Hydrochlorothiazide.
- Hydroxyzine Hydrochloride.
- Hydroxychloroquine.
- Hydroxyzine Pamoate.
- Hydroquinone.
- Hyoscyamine.
- Hydralazine.
What are the most common psychiatric drugs?
Most Frequently Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs
- Xanax (alprazolam), 48.5 million.
- Zoloft (sertraline), 41.4 million.
- Celexa (citalopram), 39.4 million.
- Prozac (fluoxetine), 28.3 million.
- Ativan (lorazepam), 27.9 million.
- Desyrel (trazodone HCL), 26.2 million.
- Lexapro (escitalopram), 24.9 million.
How many antipsychotics are there?
There are two main types of antipsychotics: atypical antipsychotics and older antipsychotics. Both types are thought to work as well as each other. Side-effects are common with antipsychotics.