Prescription | | Psychiatric medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucination or thought disorder, (schizophrenia |
Refills | | Medication for the treatment of depression |
Dosage | | Being physically addicted to a medication |
Side effects | | When ever you have a adverse reaction to a medication |
Overdose | | The exact amount (number) of medication prescribed by your doctor to take |
Pill box | | Medication used for ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Generic drugs | | Any consequential, harmful or unpleasant effect of takimg a medication |
OTC | | Any medication capable of affecting the mind, emotion and behavior |
Dependence | | Medications that work like the brand name medications, but they are cheaper |
Pill counting | | Relief from pain |
Call your doctor | | Where you different medications are safely stored |
Read the labels | | Doctors written order permitting you to obtain a specific medication |
Psychotropic medications | | Psychiatric medication induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement (benzodiazepine) |
Antidepressant | | Take medicatioin only when required |
Antipsychotic | | Psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorder , characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts |
Mood stabilizer | | To take medication more than you were prescribed or to many doses of a medication |
Sedative/tranquizer | | Medications that you can purchase without requiring a presecription |
Hypnotic | | Give someone any of your medications to take |
Stimulant | | The number of times a pharmacist will give you the medications before requiring another prescription fom your doctor |
Analgesic | | Everytime you pick up a perscription at the pharmacy |
Never, never do | | What you should do when ever you pick up a perscription |
PRN | | Medication whose primary function is to induce sleep |