The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference

Presents the five main components of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of the most commonly prescribed drugs, this book provides generic names (with pronunciations), trade names, therapeutic classes, general FDA-approved therapeutic uses, and commercially available dosage forms/strengths.

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Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, this completely revised edition of The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main components of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of the most commonly prescribed drugs, this book provides generic names (with pronunciations), trade names, therapeutic classes, general FDA-approved therapeutic uses, and commercially available dosage forms/strengths.

KEY FEATURES:

Five components of information on approximately 1,500 drug products: Generic Names (with pronunciations), Trade Names, Therapeutic Class, General Uses, and Dosage Forms/Strengths.
The top 200 oral and topical products by retail sales, most oral and topical products approved by the FDA since 1997, plus more than 400 of the top parenteral products.
Trade-name Index.
A top-200 drugs table and brief appendices showing the controlled substance schedules, common abbreviations used in prescriptions, and common conversions.