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Psychotropic medications and work performance.

¹National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Journal of Occupational Medicine. : Official Publication of the Industrial Medical Association

|April 1, 1990

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Psychiatric medications like antidepressants and neuroleptics can cause side effects impacting work performance, such as reduced alertness and motor control. However, untreated psychiatric disorders pose greater work disruptions than medication side effects.

Area of Science:

Psychiatry
Pharmacology
Occupational Health

Background:

Major psychiatric disorders are treated with antidepressants, antimanic agents, antipanic drugs, and neuroleptics.
These psychotropic medications can present side effects that may impact an individual's work performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To inform clinicians about the common adverse effects of psychotropic drugs on work performance.
To highlight the relationship between psychotropic medication side effects and job capabilities.

Main Methods:

Review of common psychotropic drug classes and their known side effects.
Analysis of how specific drug properties influence cognitive and motor functions relevant to work.

Main Results:

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Tertiary amine tricyclic antidepressants and benzodiazepines can decrease alertness.
Slowed visual accommodation from tricyclics or low-potency neuroleptics may impair fine-motor control.
Neuroleptics and lithium (at toxic levels) can cause motor incoordination.

Conclusions:

Clinicians must understand psychotropic drug pharmacology to anticipate and manage performance-related side effects.
The adverse effects of psychotropic medications on work performance are generally less disruptive than the consequences of untreated psychiatric disorders.