This revised fourth edition of Drugs in Use presents a series of clinical case studies to illustrate how pharmacists can optimize drug therapy in response to the needs of individual patients.

Patient information is interspersed with questions and answers suitable for self-study or group discussion and a pharmaceutical care plan is included within each chapter. The cases included address situations which are commonly encountered or associated with particular difficulties in treatment individualization. Those in which major advances in therapeutics have recently occurred are also covered.

All case studies from the previous edition have been updated and revised, and new chapters have been included on the following:

• eczema
• psoriasis
• Crohn's disease
• oncology
• substance misuse

Translating the knowledge acquired during undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy courses into the clinical skills required to optimize the therapy of patients can seem a daunting task. This book was conceived as a method of helping pharmacists and prescribers to 'bridge the gap' between the acquisition of theoretical knowledge about drugs and its practical application to individual patients.

Readership: It will be an invaluable resource for pharmacy students, pre-registration pharmacists and practicing pharmacists. It will also be a valuable resource for medical students and non-medical prescribers.

Drugs in Use is also available as an eBook.

1. Myocardial Infarction

2. Ischaemic Heart Disease

3. Hypertension

4. Cardiac Failure

5. Acute Renal Failure

6. Chronic Renal Failure

7. Renal Transplantation

8. Duodenal Ulcer

9. Ulcerative Colitis

10. Alcoholic Liver Disease

11. Asthma

12. COPD

13. Epilepsy

14. Parkinson's Disease

15. Stroke

16. Schizophrenia

17. Depression

18. Dementia

19. Symptom Control in Palliative Care

20. HIV

21. Diabetes Type 1 and II

22. Rheumatoid Arthritis

23. Osteoporosis

24. Anticoagulant Therapy

25. Colorectal Surgery

26. Cholecystectomy

27. Managing Medicine Risk

28. Medicines Management

29. Obesity

30. Community Acquired Pneumonia

31. Psoriasis

32. Eczema

33. Oncology

34. Substance Misuse

35. Managing Infection