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Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are as important in psychiatric practice as they are in any other branch of medicine. The safety of medicines is an essential part of patient safety. Global drug safety depends on strong national systems that monitor the development and quality of medicines, report their harmful effects, and provide accurate information for their safe use. ADRs are defined as an „unexpected, unintended, undesired or excessive response to a drug‟, which would include „allergic reactions and idiosyncratic reactions that are an abnormal susceptibility to a drug peculiar to the individual‟. All noxious and unintended responses to a medicinal product related to any dose should be considered adverse drug reaction. ADRs only affect a minority of those taking a particular drug. It is often seen that commonly prescribed drugs, elicit ADR in some, at the same time many remain unaffected. Pharmacovigilance is, “The Pharmacological Science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines.” Pharmacovigilance in psychiatry units can play a vital role in detecting ADRs and alerting physicians to the possibility and circumstances of such events, thereby protecting the user population from avoidable harm. Many psychotropic drugs are available in India and their use is increasing day by day. Commonly used psychotropic drugs in psychiatry O.P.D. are the drugs used for psychoses, depression, epilepsy, mania, migraine and insomnia. These drugs are capable of causing a number of ADRs, 5,6 some of which may be fatal. Most commonly ADRs are seen with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. ADRs associated with psychotropic drugs can lead to noncompliance, and at times discontinuation of therapy. In India, pharmacovigilance activities are still in the nascent stage and the data of ADRs particularly related to psychotropic drugs need to be strengthened.

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF MONITORING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS AT PSYCHIATRY OUT-PATIENT-DEPARTMENT IN OUR TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL, SURENDRANAGAR