Visions: Medications


Cover of Vissions Medications Issue Medications: Fall 2007
Vol. 4, No. 2 (36 pages)
PDF of Complete Issue (2.0mb)

Table of Contents:
  • Editor's Message (Sarah Hamid-Balma)
  • Medications for Mental Illness: Are we there yet? [guest editorial] (Debbie Thompson)
  • Medications Glossary
  • How Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications Work (Anthony Tung and Ric M. Procyshyn)
  • Medications Used in Recovery from Addiction (Jennifer Melamed)
  • All About Benzos (Nicole Pankratz)
  • From Happenstance to Targeted Investigation: A brief history of mental health meds (Debbie Thompson) [online only]
  • Myths About Antidepressants [online only]
  • Medications: A quagmire of approaches and attitudes (Bob Krzyzewski)
  • Medication Madness (V.J.)
  • A Sudden Stop: Medication management taken out of my control (Patricia Harding) [online only]
  • A Pharmaceutical Sunset With a Side Order of Weight Gain, Please! My journey, through cocktails, to the light (Simone Dina-Blunck)
  • Medications: Helping me enjoy the world go by (Howard Dempster)
  • Tardive Dyskinesia—A Side Effect of Stigma (Susan Katz)
  • Medications and Youth on the Street (Don McGinnis)
  • To Take or Not to Take? The problem of compliance (Fiona McGregor)
  • A Pill for Every Ill — Or an Ill for Every Pill? (Barbara Mintzes)
  • Medication in the Press: Evaluating media coverage of psychiatric and addiction drugs (Donna Panitow)
  • Using Mental Health Medications in Children and Youth: Some thoughts... (Lorne Brandt)
  • Antidepressants in Pregnancy and Lactation: Let’s look at the facts (Wende Wood)
  • Medication Research in Psychiatry: New trends and discoveries (Sylvia Zerjav)
  • Working With Your Partner in Health (Patrick McGowan)
  • Between Dusk and Dawn—Who Ya Gonna Call? The BC NurseLine Pharmacist Service (Barbara Gobis Ogle and Elaine Chong)
  • Plan G: Financial assistance for psychiatric medications (Daryn)
  • I Can’t Access or Afford the Medication I Need: Now what? (Megan Dumas)
  • Resources

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