Our standard
PsychiatryRx publishes medication information that people use to make real decisions, so every page is held to the same standard: accurate, plainly written, honest about uncertainty, and free of anything trying to sell you.
How a guide is written
Each guide is written in plain language, with clinical terms defined the first time they appear. The aim is writing a non-clinical reader can follow on a hard day, and that a clinician reading it would not wince at.
Content is drawn from primary sources: U.S. Food and Drug Administration prescribing information, MedlinePlus from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institute of Mental Health, and clinical practice guidelines. The sources for each guide are listed on the page.
How it is reviewed
Every guide is reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, a board-certified psychiatrist, for clinical accuracy before it is published. The reviewer's name and the date of the most recent review appear on each page, so you can see how current it is.
How it is kept current
Medication guidance changes over time. Pages are reviewed again and updated as labeling and clinical guidance change, and the last-reviewed date is updated when that happens.
What PsychiatryRx does not do
The site provides general education, not individual medical advice. It does not diagnose, does not recommend a specific medication or dose for any reader, and is not a substitute for a prescriber who knows your history. Every guide routes medication decisions back to a clinician.
How we describe what the site does
PsychiatryRx is an educational publication, not a diagnostic tool. Pages are written to help you reflect, explore, understand, and learn about a medication. The site doesn't monitor you, detect anything about you, predict your response, or diagnose. It never tells a reader "you have" or "you likely have" a condition or a side effect.
Where pages describe what a clinician monitors (for example, blood pressure on guanfacine, blood levels on lithium, or weight on quetiapine), that's describing the prescriber's role in your care, not anything the site is doing.
Corrections
If you believe something on the site is inaccurate or out of date, we want to know. Corrections can be sent through the contact link in the footer, and substantive changes are reflected in the page's last-reviewed date.