GC: n

S: CAMBRIDGE – https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/discontinuing-psychotropic-drug-treatment/249FF79A648ABD3A77675A337C9043F4 (last access: 20 April 2021); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850374/ (last access: 20 April 2021).

N: 1. – psychotropic (adj): It appears in 1956, “affecting a person’s mental state,” especially “of or pertaining to drugs that affect mental states,” from psycho- + -tropic, from Greek tropos “a turning,” from trepein “to turn” (from PIE root *trep- “to turn”). Hence, what “turns” the mind.
– drug (n): Late 14c., drogge (early 14c. in Anglo-French), “any substance used in the composition or preparation of medicines,” from Old French droge “supply, stock, provision” (14c.), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps it is from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge-vate “dry barrels,” or droge waere, literally “dry wares” (but specifically drugs and spices), with first element mistaken as indicating the contents, or because medicines mostly consisted of dried herbs.
2. A drug or other substance that affects how the brain works and causes changes in mood, awareness, thoughts, feelings, or behavior.
3. Examples of psychotropic drugs include alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, marijuana, and certain pain medicines. Many illegal drugs, such as heroin, LSD, cocaine, and amphetamines are also psychotropic drugs. Additionally, it also includes medication such as: antianxiety, antidepressant, and sedative or hypnotic agents.

S: 1. OED – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=psychotropic+drug (last access: 12 April 2021). 2. NIC – https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/psychotropic-substance (last access: 14 April 2021). 3. NIC – https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/psychotropic-substance (last access: 14 April 2021); WOL – https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1990.tb03496.x (last access: 14 April 2021).

SYN: psychotropic medication, psychotropic substance, mood modifying drug, mental drug, psychoactive drug, psychoactive substance, mood-altering drug.

S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=psychotropic+drug&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 14 April 2021); NIC – https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/psychotropic-substance (last access: 14 April 2021); NIC – https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/psychoactive-substance (last access: 14 April 2021).

CR: drug substance