Written for the United States
PsychiatryRx is written primarily for readers in the United States. Its medication guides reflect U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling, U.S. clinical practice guidelines, and U.S. healthcare conventions, including how prescriptions are written, how controlled substances are scheduled, and how mental health care is typically organized.
You're welcome to read the site from anywhere in the world, but please understand what U.S.-focused content means for you.
What can differ outside the United States
If you live outside the United States, important details about a medication may be different where you are. These include:
- Approved uses. A medication may be approved in the United States for conditions that are not approved indications in your country, or the reverse.
- Brand names. Brand names vary widely by country. The same molecule may be sold under a different name where you live.
- Available doses and formulations. Tablet strengths, extended-release formulations, and liquid options can differ.
- Boxed warnings and contraindications. Each country's regulator decides what warnings appear on the label.
- Controlled-substance scheduling. A medication that is a controlled substance in the United States may be regulated differently in your country.
- Generic availability and pricing. What is generic, and what it costs, varies by market.
- Access pathways. Who can prescribe, where you fill the prescription, and what your health system covers all vary.
For medication facts specific to your country, the most reliable source is your country's medicines regulator and the prescribing information your own pharmacist or prescriber can show you.
Crisis resources outside the United States
The crisis numbers cited in places on the site, including 988 and 911, are United States resources. If you're outside the United States and are in crisis, please use a local crisis service. The International Association for Suicide Prevention maintains a list of crisis lines by country at findahelpline.com.
Privacy and law
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Some readers, depending on where they live, may have additional rights over personal information under local privacy laws, such as the United Kingdom's UK GDPR, the European Union's GDPR, Canada's PIPEDA, or similar regimes. PsychiatryRx collects very little personal information by design. To ask about your rights, write to support@psychiatryrx.org.
Use the site as a starting point
For readers outside the United States, the most useful way to read PsychiatryRx is as a plain-language explainer of how a medication or a class of medications generally works, and then to confirm specifics, including what is available and how it is regulated, with your own prescriber and pharmacist locally.