Appendix B - PBS Items

PBS subsidised mental health-related prescription medication
Code	Medication groups	Code	Medication subgroup
N05	Psycholeptics
N05A	Antipsychotics	N05AA	Phenothiazines with aliphatic side-chain
		N05AB	Phenothiazines with piperazine structure
		N05AC	Phenothiazines with piperidine structure
		N05AD	Butyrophenone derivatives
		N05AE	Indole derivatives
		N05AF	Thioxanthene derivatives
		N05AH	Diazepines, oxazepines, thiazepines and oxepines
		N05AL	Benzamides
		N05AX	Other antipsychotics
N05B	Anxiolytics	N05BA	Benzodiazepine derivatives
N05C	Hypnotics and Sedatives	N05CD	Benzodiazepine derivatives
N06	Psychoanaleptics
N06A	Antidepressants	N06AA	Non-selective monoamine reuptake inhibitors
		N06AB	Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
		N06AF	Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, non-selective
		N06AG	Monoamine oxidase A inhibitors
		N06AX	Other antidepressants
N06B	Psychostimulants, agents used for ADHD and Nootopics	N06BA	Centrally acting sympathomimetics

Descriptions of Medications

N05 Psycholeptics	A group of drugs that tranquillises (central nervous system depressants)
Antipsychotics (N05A)	Drugs used to treat symptoms of psychosis (a severe mental disorder characterised by loss of contact with reality, delusions and hallucinations), common in conditions such as schizophrenia, mania and delusional disorder.
Anxiolytics (N05B)	Drugs prescribed to treat symptoms of anxiety.
Hypnotics and sedatives (N05C)	Hypnotic drugs are used to induce sleep and treat severe insomnia. Sedative drugs are prescribed to reduce excitability or anxiety.
N06 Psychoanaleptics	A group of drugs that stimulates the mood (central nervous system stimulants)
Antidepressants (N06A)	Drugs used to treat the symptoms of clinical depression.
Psychostimulants and nootropics (N06B)	Agents used for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and to improve impaired cognitive abilities (nootropics).

Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014, 'Medicare-subsidised mental health-related prescriptions', viewed 13 August 2014, < https://mhsa.aihw.gov.au/services/medicare/>