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Pharmacopedia

The definitive reference for psychotropic medicines.

Mature audiences onlyUnder construction. Nothing is reliable (yet)405 pages · 297 categories · 10 contributors

Origin

Pharmaceutical

The prescriber's reference, clinical-first.

23 classes · indexed by therapeutic use

01Featured medicine

Fluoxetine

SSRI · Antidepressant · introduced 1987

The first of the SSRIs, released in the United States in December 1987 and still a mainstay for conditions from anxiety to OCD. Both of its founding promises, that it was effective and that it was well tolerated, have drawn hard scrutiny since.

02Browse pharmaceutical classesall 23

Antidepressants52(more info)

Melatonin Agonist / Serotonin Antagonist1

Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)15

Multimodal Serotonergic Agents2

Noradrenergic and Specific Serotonergic Antidepressants (NaSSAs)0

Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (NRIs)3

Norepinephrine–Dopamine Reuptake Inhibitors (NDRIs)0

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)3

Serotonin Antagonist and Reuptake Inhibitors (SARIs)1

Serotonin–Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)3

Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs)7

Anxiolytics29(more info)

Azapirones1

Thienodiazepines3

Mood stabilizers0

Neuroleptics30(more info)

First-generation neuroleptics18

Second-generation neuroleptics10

Third-generation neuroleptics3

Opioids42(more info)

Mixed Agonist-Antagonists3

Mu-Opioid Receptor Agonists30

Opioid Receptor Modulator + NMDA Antagonists2

Opioid antagonists7

Partial Mu-Opioid Agonists1

Κ-Opioid Receptor Agonists4

Psychedelics109(more info)

Classical Psychedelics (Serotonergic)87

Deliriants17

Dissociative Anesthetics22

Empathogens18

Κ-Opioid Receptor Agonists4

Psychostimulants57(more info)

Amphetamines20

Eugeroics5

Histamine H3 Antagonists / Inverse Agonists1

Methylphenidates (Phenidates)8

Xanthines5

03Clinical tools

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Every pharmacological class and plant lineage on the wiki, the two origins side by side.

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04Recently updated

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Bupropion4 d

Lithium5 d

Fluoxetine5 d

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The plant origin

Origin

Plant (and fungi and animals)

The poison path, the field guide.

3 Pharmako volumes · 11 classes

Featured plant medicine

Cannabis

Cannabaceae · in use for millennia

The most used of the plant medicines and among the oldest companions of any, cannabis carries a record of human use that runs from the Neolithic steppe to the modern clinic, gathered, named, and argued over the whole way.

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Poeia7(more info)

Dynamis2(more info)