• RAMANJEET KAUR
• Tanuja
• R.K.Patil
• H.C. Patil
• Ramit Gupta

Antipsychotics, antidepressants, and benzodiazepines are examples of psychotropic medicines. Mental disorders are the group of disease of brain such as anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorder etc. According to WHO, drug utilization evaluation is the marketing, prescription, distribution and use of medicines in a society, with definite emphasis on the social, economic and medical implications. Atypical antipsychotics were prescribed more frequently such as olanzapine was prescribed forty seven percentage of the time, risperidone was given 27.49 percent of the time, clozapine was prescribed 13.06 percent of the time. Antipsychotics, mood stabilisers and antiepressants were found to be the most widely used medicines in the study population. investigation it was found that atypical antipsychotic drugs such as olanzapine and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor mostly used by psychiatric patients .these drugs used as first line treatment and produce less side effects that helps in improvement patient quality of life.

Mental disorder, Psychotropic drugs, Patients, Treatment.

"A REVIEW ON DRUG UTILIZATION STUDY OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.d555-d561, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107462.pdf

"A REVIEW ON DRUG UTILIZATION STUDY OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppd555-d561, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107462.pdf