Medication Information

Australian Medicines Handbook AMH Aged Care Companion AMH Children's Dosing Companion	eMIMS	eTG Complete	Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines	Paediatric Injectable Guidelines	Don't Rush to Crush	Micromedex (including Trissels IV compatibility)

Check the App Guide for access to these on your mobile. 

Other drug guides

• Australasian Neonatal Medicines Formulary

• LactMed

• Lexicomp

• Martindale's Adverse Drug Reactions

• Merck Manual

• Natural Medicines

• Palliative Care Formulary 

• Primary Clinical Care Manual (PCCM)

• Renal Drug Database 

• Stockley's Drug Interactions

Australian drug information

Information in these pages can help health service organisations and clinicians identify and implement strategies to improve medication safety.

Choosing Wisely is creating a cultural shift towards health professionals and consumers engaging in conversations about what care is truly needed – what is helpful and what is not. The right choice should be based on the best available evidence and discussion between consumers and clinicians. We are here to encourage and support clinicians, consumers and organisations who are committed to embedding Choosing Wisely recommendations and principles into practice.

The overall mission of NDARC is to conduct and disseminate high quality research and related activities that increases the effectiveness of treatment and other intervention responses to alcohol and other drug related harm. They have created these fact sheets.

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre is not primarily an information centre and has a limited ability to provide drug information to the general public. However, due to great demand we have produced a series of fact sheets on a range of drugs and statistical data which may prove useful.

Independent, not-for-profit, evidence-based and consumer-centred information about medicines.

This website contains information on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme including details of the medicines subsidised by the Australian Government as well as information for consumers, carers, health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry. The PBS is part of Australia’s broader National Medicines Policy.

Our aim is to support the National Strategy for the Quality Use of Medicines.The goal of the strategy is to make the best possible use of medicines to improve health outcomes for all Australians. We support this goal by providing free access to high quality, up to date information about medicines that are approved for use in Australia.

SafeScript is a new system providing prescription information to enable the safer supply of high risk medicines.

Opioids

The main purpose of the NOPSAD collection is to aggregate standardised jurisdictional data on the number of clients accessing pharmacotherapy for the treatment of opioid dependence, the number of prescribers participating in the delivery of pharmacotherapy treatment, and quantitative information about the prescribing sector, enabling national information on pharmacotherapy to be reported.

The Department of Health and Human Services has worked with NPS MedicineWise to develop a range of resources for health professionals, as well as consumer fact sheets, to promote the safer use of opioid medicines.

Poisons