TICTAC is a comprehensive CD-ROM database for the visual identification of drugs (primarily Tablets and Capsules) and substances that may resemble drugs. TICTAC is most commonly used by healthcare and law enforcement professionals, and by the pharmaceutical industry.

Easy visual identification: TICTAC’s extraordinarily versatile and easy-to-use search facilities are specifically designed to help healthcare and law & order professionals make swift and accurate identification of tablets, capsules and many other products from their physical appearance.

Easy descriptive identification: TICTAC’s comprehensive database also assists the identification of drug-containing products (mostly tablets, capsules and transdermal devices) and products that might be confused with them (e.g. confectionery) from a physical description. TICTAC includes medicines and illicit substances.

65,000+ colour photos: Fully indexed and searchable, TICTAC makes visual confirmation simple with its extensive image library of over 65,000 colour photographs.

Making a TICTAC identification: To make a TICTAC identification, simply select from the many available options the criteria that best describe the unknown tablet, capsule or transdermal device. TICTAC will match your selected criteria against the contents of the database. All tablets, capsules or transdermal devices matching your criteria will then be displayed from the image library.

Freedom to experiment: With TICTAC – because the search process is so rapid and because pictures of the products found are presented for visual confirmation almost instantaneously – you can experiment with different search strategies cost-effectively and without wasting time.

TICTAC is provided as a CD-ROM — updated quarterly to keep abreast of changes. Annual subscribers receive:

• Four updated versions of the TICTAC CD-ROM.
• Confidential Telephone Support from the toxicologist John Ramsey at St Georges Medical School, University London.
• TICTAC User Manual.
• Access to the subscriber-only website (TICTAC On-line), updated as often as daily with new products.
• Regular issues of TICTAC News.
• Subscribing pharmaceutical companies also benefit from a guarantee that all the products they submit to the eMC will be included within TICTAC.

TICTAC contains information on all of the products contained within the database. Other dose forms are included where identification is possible from a physical description. Information is held on ethical, generic, over-the-counter medicines as well as illicit drugs increasingly being sold as tablets (e.g. ecstasy). In addition, information is held on human, veterinary and confectionery products that might be confused with medicines. Herbal and homeopathic products are included as well. There is also a database of the designs on the paper doses of LSD.

Comprehensive data on…

• tablets, capsules and transdermal device patches
• illicit products
• branded and generic products
• herbal products
• veterinary products
• confectionery that might be confused with drugs

And…

• Detailed video clips — ideal for inclusion in training programmes
• Links to Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPCs), which contain information on medicines including:
  • Indications
  • Contra-indications
  • Side effects
  • Interactions
  • Dosage of medicines
• Pictorial monographs on illicit drugs
• Thesaurus of slang terms for drugs

• 24,478 products
• 3,630 drugs
• 1,081 companies
• 65,000 images
• 109 drug monographs
• Over 4,146 slang terms

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Published by TICTAC Communications Ltd