Medication and Regulation
Drug Actions
Drug Interactions
Nonprescription Drugs
Forms and Routes of Meds
100
Enforcement of medication legislation in the United States is one of the responsibilities of this agency.
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
100
The study of how a medication enters the body, moves through the body, and ultimately leaves the body.
What is pharmacokinetics?
100
Predictable but unwanted and sometimes unavoidable reactions to medications.
What are side effects?
100
The main side effect of these OTC medications is anticoagulation.
What are Vitamins?
100
Safest, most convenient, and least expensive method of administration.
What is oral medication?
200
Controlled substance compliance is monitored by this agency.
What is DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)
200
The process in which a medication interacts with the body's cells to produce a biologic response.
What is pharmacodynamics?
200
A severe allergic reaction to a drug.
What is anaphylactic reaction?
200
Among the top ten of this substance is Echinacea, flaxseed, ginseng, ginkgo, and garlic.
What is herbal supplements?
200
Medication absorbed through the skin over an extended period.
What are transdermal patches?
300
Two Licensed clinical staff must witness the disposal of the substance and document the wasting of the drug in the appropriate manner.
What is a controlled drug?
300
The intended use and response caused by administered medication.
What is Therapeutic?
300
Unpredictable patient response to medication.
What is idiosyncratic reaction?
300
A,D, E, K vitamins
What are fat-soluble vitamins?
300
Route tablet medication is administered to prevent destruction by the gastric or intestinal secretion.
What is buccal or sublingual?
400
These are usually over the counter meds with low potential for abuse.
What is Schedule V drugs?
400
Process by which a drug is altered to a less active form to prepare for excretion.
What is metabolism?
400
The patient taking a herb and prescription for the same effect could experience a __________ _________.
What is a toxic reaction.
400
Medications taken into the body through the respiratory tract.
What is inhalation medications?
500
There is currently no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States for drugs such as heroin, LSD, and methaqualone.
What is Schedule I drugs?
500
Expected time if takes for the blood concentration to measure one half of the original drug dose due to drug elimination.
What is half-life?
500
Occurs when the combined effect is greater than the effect of either substance if taken alone.
What is synergistic effect?
500
Herb used to alleviate mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders
What is St. John's Wort?
500
The four types of parental medication.
What is intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, and intravenous?
M
e
n
u