Medication Management

Topics in this section:

• Managing Medication for Children and Adolescents with ADHD (WWK3)
• Managing Medication for Adults with ADHD (WWK10)
• Managing Medicine for Children and Teenagers with ADHD (WWK 3 short version)
• Managing Medication in Adults with ADHD (WWK 10 short version)

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Other Web Sites:

• ADHD Parents Medication Guide
  A helpful guide prepared jointly by the the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
• Avoiding Drug Interactions (FDA Consumer Update)
• Drug Information Portal
  The National Library of Medicine offers this website providing quick access to quality drug information.
• Food and Drug Adminstration
  The FDA is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It consists of 8 centers and offices, one of which -- the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research -- oversees the evaluation of new and current medications.
• Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)
  Acomputerized information database designed to support the FDA's post-marketing safety surveillance program for all approved drug and therapeutic biologic products. The FDA uses AERS to monitor for new adverse events and medication errors that might occur with these marketed products.
• MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
  The FDA's gateway for finding clinically important safety information and reporting serious problems with human medical products.
• FDA List of Approved Drugs and Package Inserts
  This online catalog from the Food and Drug Administration provides a searchable database of approved medications along with the history of each medication's approval process and the full package insert (i.e. the same information as in the PDR).
• Medications
  This National Institutes of Health booklet is designed to help mental health patients and their families understand how and why medications can be used as part of the treatment of mental health problems.
• MEDLINEplus Drug Information
  MEDLINEplus is a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance
  The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need for free or nearly free.