+1 862 207 3288 For this assignment, students will choose one psychotropic medication to research and then critically discuss the medication information found from various sources.
To complete this assignment, first select any psychotropic drug that you have an interest in learning more about.(Drug to be studied is effexor) It is advisable to choose a medication that has been on the market for at least 1 year or longer. It will also be most efficient to choose a medication that your interviewee in Assignment 5 is taking. Then complete the following steps:
Locate and read 2 peer-reviewed journal articles that study the efficacy and/or safety of this medication. You should choose articles that to you represent the “best” scientific evidence on this medication.
Go to www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ (Links to an external site.) (click on the “Index to Drug-Specific Information”) and review the FDA-approved drug label and any FDA-issued warnings or precautions for this medication
Go to www.webmd.com (Links to an external site.) or www.pdrhealth.com (Links to an external site.) and read the professionally-contributed summary of information about this medication
Go to www.askapatient.com (Links to an external site.) and review at least the 20 most recent consumer reviews for this medication
Go to www.crazymeds.us/CrazyTalk (Links to an external site.) and read the consumer discussion threads specific to this medication
Go to www.youtube.com (Links to an external site.) and watch your choice of 3 videos related to this medication
Do a Google (or other) search of the medication, and identify and review 1 additional credible online source of information about this drug (however you define credible)
After completing the above steps, write a 3 to 5 page paper providing a thoughtful, integrated response to the items below. Please include citations for the journal articles you located for bullet #1.
Identify the medication you researched, and compare and contrast the information you learned about this drug from each online source, including (but not limited to):
Where does each website appear to obtain its drug information from (i.e., scientific studies, personal experience, pharmaceutical manufacturer, etc.)? How credible or trustworthy do you feel that the information on each site is? Explain on what basis you made your judgments about the credibility or trustworthiness of the information and/or the websites.
Where did you find the most useful or helpful information? Why was it useful/helpful?
Where did you find the least useful or helpful information? Why wasn’t it useful/helpful?
Where did you find the most comprehensive information? Least comprehensive information?
Did you notice discrepant information across these sources? For example, did one source identify a particular drug effect as mild, while another source described the same effect as very troubling or severe? How might the discrepancies you found be explained?
After visiting all of these sources, how knowledgeable do you feel about the uses and effects of this drug? What else, if anything, would you still like to know or understand about this drug before feeling competent to aid a client in making a drug-related treatment decision (specific to the medication you researched)?
Where or from what sources might you seek an answer to the questions you still have about the medication? If you don’t think the information you seek is available, explain why.
Which source(s) would you most highly recommend your clients look to if they were interested in learning more about a drug they were taking or considering taking? Explain your answer.
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