Lesson 12: Medications And Relapse Prevention - Slide 12

Drug Interactions Can Cause You Problems
- Additive: the most common interaction occurs when one drug adds to the effect of another e.g. some headache medications in combination with alcohol cause exhaustion
- Antagonistic: one drug cancels out the effects of another e.g. Prozac taken with the allergy medicine Periactin loses its anti-depressant effect
- Unpredictable: the unknown consequences of combining a drug, usually a new one and another drug
Notes:
Page 3-7, Graedon, Joe and Graedon, Teresa, “The People's Guide To Deadly Drug Interactions: How To Protect Yourself From Life-Threatening Drug-Drug, Drug-Food, Drug-Vitamin Combinations (The People's Pharmacy Guides,” St Martin’s Press, New York, 1995.