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Psychiaty Alternatives Links & Resources
www.naturaldatabase.com is a subscriptions service which provides evidence based information on integrative treatments, in particuluar, supplements including their safety and dosing. There is a utility to check medications and supplements against each other for interactions.
www.drugdigest.org has a free drug and supplement interaction checker (click on check interactions at the top). The site also includes a fair review of most supplements including possible efficacy, side effects, and safety issues including contrindications (click drug library at the top). The interaction checker also includes an option for foods and alcohol
www.subscriberx.com/iqhealth/druginfostart.html a site for IQHealth which has an interaction checker along with drug information including side effects, safety issues, and containdications for several supplements as well as prescription medications.
www.consumerlab.com is a subscription data base which provides evidence based information on supplements as well as independent test results on the safety and quality of commercially available products. This site covers other alternative therapies as well.
www.nccam.nih.gov is the website for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. From that site you may search their extensive data base which seems to be especially good when it comes to supplements, presenting research based evidence along with dosing and safety precautions.
www.integrativementalhealth.net is Dr. James Lake's website. It includes a general overview of reserach and alternative therapies including the use of supplements in Integrative Psychiatry.
www.lef.org/protocols The Life Extension foundation website provides a lot of useful information including on safety and dosing for most of the supplements used in alternative psychiatry. On the site there are links to Life Extension Magazine articles which presents some of the cutting edge research on issues. The articles tend to support the use of supplements with basic research as well as clinical trials on humans.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html From MedlinePlus provides a nice listing on medications and selective supplements (links to www.naturalstandard.com based information).
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