LibGuides: Drug Research for Psychology: Drug Resources

FDA MedWatch Alerts

AHFS Consumer Medication Information This link opens in a new window
Provides access to information about U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide This link opens in a new window
Now called AHFS Consumer Medication Information

MedlinePlus: Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
Includes dosages, side effects, precautions for over-the-counter, prescription, and herbal medicines.
Drugs@FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Drugs@FDA contains prescription and over-the-counter human drugs and therapeutic biologicals currently approved for sale in the United States. Drugs@FDA includes discontinued drugs and "Chemical Type 6" approvals.

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE with Full Text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 5,6000 current biomedical journals and MEDLINE with Full Text provides access to the full text of over 1,400 of those journals.

Physician's Desk Reference
REF RS 75. P5 Reference Book for drug labeling information on prescription drugs.
Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol & addictive behavior
Electronic Reference Book.
DrugBank
"The DrugBank database is a unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information."