For Further Reading

Package inserts for approved drugs -- included with purchased medications or available from a pharmacist or on the internet. Check pharmaceutical company web sites; most have sites for specific drugs, often with URLs that include the drugs' brand names (e.g., www.reyataz.com)

HIV Drug-Drug Interactions -- The Body's listing of the latest drug interaction news, research, tools, and specific medication alerts

Polypharmacy Problems: Drug Interactions in the Multidrug Therapy of HIV Infection -- article by Alice Pau, PharmD, and Tim Horn. PRN Notebook, March 2002; includes interaction charts featuring lipid-lowering agents, herbal/nutraceutical therapies, and illicit/recreational drugs

What's PK Got to Do With It? -- the Winter 2005 issue of Positively Aware features a series of articles on pharmacokinetic basics and how the three major antiretroviral drug classes work and interact

Clinically Significant Drug Interactions Associated with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy -- article by John Faragon, PharmD, and Peter Piliero, MD. HIV Education Prison Project, January 2004; accompanying chart, Drug Interactions with HAART and Methadone

Drug Interactions: HIV Medications, Street Drugs and Methadone -- article by James Learned and Maia Szalavitz. ACRIA Update, Spring 2005