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.
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.