Intro to Pharm
This plant is used as an ingredient in codeine and morphine, and is used to treat pain.
What is poppy
This principle is applied when the drug is the key and the lock is the chemical to which the drug binds.
What is the lock and key principle?
This drug inhibits nerve cells that carry pain impulses to our brain when they bind to and stimulate endorphin receptors in the spine.
What are Narcotic Analgesics?
This is the process by which a drug enters the blood plasma.
What is absorption?
The most widely used system of measurement in pharmacy.
What is the metric system?
This man discovered in 1928 that penicillin is produced by mold.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This is any effect produced by a drug that is not the desired effect
What is a side effect?
This drug reduces the production of prostaglandins and decreases pain.
What are NSAIDs?
The chemical change that takes place in a drug after it has been absorbed by the body.
What is metabolism?
When a drug is injected into the muscle.
What is a IM injection?
This drug was originally an extract taken from the bark of willow trees.
What is Aspirin?
These effects occur before a drug is absorbed into the blood stream
What are local side effects?
The time needed before a drug takes effect.
What is the onset of action?
The process that removes a drug from the body.
What is elimination?
A route that is injected directly into a vein.
What is IV
This topic is the study of the effects of drugs.
What is Pharmacotherapeutics?
This effect is potentially more harmful, but less commonly caused by medications.
What is an adverse effect?
Any route of administration other than oral.
What is parenteral administration?
Refers to where the drug goes after entering the plasma.
What is distribution?
When a medication is taken by mouth.
What is oral administration?
A group of drugs that produce their effects in the same way.
What is a therapeutic class?
The term used to describe how drugs produce their effects by interacting with other chemicals in the body.
What is a Mechanism of Action?
This was designed to deliver a constant amount of drug over an extended period of time.
What is a transdermal patch?
The amount of a drug to be administered, is normally based on the weight of an individual.
What is a dosage?
The autoimmune disorder that mrs. Huddleston has
What is ITP?