Author Description

"For over 50 years, American Drug Index has provided explanation and correlation of thousands of pharmaceuticals to medical, pharmaceutical, and allied health professionals. This exhaustive drug listing includes composition, strength, doseform, packaging, schedule, and usage for approximately 22,000 brand and official USP generic drugs. Organized in an easy-to-follow dictionary format with extensive cross-referencing, American Drug Index includes Tall Man lettering and hard-to-find generic drug pronunciations. Appendices provide valuable information on oral doseforms that should not be crushed or chewed, drug names that look and sound alike, weights and measures, approximate practical equivalents, normal laboratory values, and a manufacturer and distributor listing."--Back cover