Classifications
What is central nervous system (CNS) depressants?
A depressant, or central depressant, is a drug that lowers neurotransmission levels, which is to depress or reduce arousal or stimulation, in various areas of the brain. Depressants are also colloquially referred to as downers as they lower the level of arousal when taken.
What is Pharmacology?
Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous molecule which exerts a biochemical or physiological effect on the cell, tissue, organ, or organism.
What is the legal definition of drug?
Drugs are articles that are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals, and any articles other than food, water, or oxygen that are intended to affect the mental or body function of humans or animals.
What is a drug action?
Affected by the quantity of drug that reaches the receptor and the degree of attraction (affinity) between it and its receptor on the cell's surface. Once bound to their receptor, drugs vary in their ability to produce an effect (intrinsic activity).
What is a Drug Reference?
A drug information source that provides drug administration and dosage, indications, contraindications, warnings, actions, drug interactions.
How many classes of drugs are there in pharmacology?
Five
Two major branches in Pharmacology?
Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
What are the 4 types of controlled substances?
Controlled substances include opioids, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and anabolic steroids.
What is the action of a drug called?
Pharmacodynamics
Fluoxetine (Prozac)
major depressive disorder (MDD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, bulimia nervosa, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). 10 or 20mg is the recommendation but no more then 60 mg a day.
What is a Pharmacological Classification?
A drug class is a set of medications and other compounds that have a similar chemical structures, the same mechanism of action, a related mode of action, and/or are used to treat the same disease. In several dominant drug classification systems, these four types of classifications form a hierarchy.
What is the pharmacology of a drug?
Pharmacology is the science of how drugs act on biological systems and how the body responds to the drug. The study of pharmacology encompasses the sources, chemical properties, biological effects and therapeutic uses of drugs.
What are illegal and legal drugs?
Legal drugs can either be bought over-the-counter or with a prescription from a medical doctor. Illegal drugs cannot legally be manufactured, bought or sold in the United States.
What are the 4 categories of drug actions?
Agonists, antagonists, partial agonists, and inverse agonists.
Ibuprofen
It is a pain killer and you can get it without a doctor prescribing it to you. Use up to 600mg take to the most in one day.
What are 5 pharmacological classification?
Three main drugs?
What is a term addict?
Any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so far addicted to the use of narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his addiction.
What is meant by drug action?
The function of a drug in various body systems.
Risperidone
to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or irritability associated with autistic disorder. This medicine should not be used to treat behavioral problems in older adults who have dementia.
What is Hallucinogen?
Hallucinogens are a large and diverse class of psychoactive drugs that can produce altered states of consciousness characterized by major alterations in thought, mood, and perception, among other changes. Most hallucinogens can be categorized as psychedelics, dissociatives, or deliriants.
What are the 7 categories of drugs?
Central nervous system (CNS) depressants, CNS stimulants, hallucinogens, dissociative anesthetics, narcotic analgesics, inhalants, and cannabis.
What are Schedule 5 drugs examples?
Cough preparations with less than 200 milligrams of codeine or per 100 milliliters (Robitussin AC), Lomotil, Motofen, Lyrica, and Parepectolin
What is the classification of drug action?
1) signal-transduction systems, 2) other components of plasmatic membranes, 3) intracellularly, 4) gene therapy, 5) extracellularly, 6) invasive agents.
Sertraline
What is sertraline supposed to do for you?