Prescribing Psychotropics bridges the gap between the complexities of drug pharmacokinetics and everyday clinical practice, providing clinicians more insight into how psychiatric drugs behave (or misbehave!) once their patients take them. The book also includes a series of unusually practical charts and tables that prescribers will find invaluable as they make medication decisions. What you'll find inside: The basics of drug metabolismWhat you really need to know about drug interactionsFood and drink effects on medicationsRecreational drug interactionsGender and drug metabolismDrug metabolism and ethnicityMore than 70 quick-reference tables, charts, and figures