The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference (Apha Pharmacy Technician Training Series)

Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of 1,100 of the most commonly prescribed drugs, including 87 drugs new to the market since the fifth edition, the book provides generic name (with pronunciation), trade name(s), therapeutic class, general FDA approved therapeutic use(s), and commercially available dosage forms/strengths.

Key Features

Five pieces of information on each of 1,100 drug products: Generic Name (with pronunciation), Trade Name(s), Therapeutic Class, General Use(s), and Dosage Forms/Strengths

The top 200 oral and topical products by retail sales, most oral and topical products approved by the FDA since 1997, plus approximately 100 of the top parenteral products

Trade-name index

A top-200 drugs table providing generic and trade names and general uses

Joyce A. Generali, BPharm, MS, FASHP, is Director, Drug Information Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City; and Clinical Professor, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, Lawrence. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Hospital Pharmacy.