Drug Schedules
Types of drugs with the lowest potential abuse
What is schedule V?
Concentration of active ingredient
What is drug potency?
Compulsive use of a drug despite physical harm and is therefore a dysfunctional behavior
What is drug addiction?
Provided safety testing on all drugs
Required pharmaceutical firms to report all adverse effects associated with their drugs at regular intervals
required all new drugs to be tested for toxicity before approval.
What is Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938?
The study of drugs and their uses.
What is Pharmacology?
Types of drugs with the highest potential for abuse.
Not accepted in the US
ex: marijuana
What is schedule I?
Ensures that consumers will receive safe medications that are the drugs that were expected
What is drug standards?
Use of a drug in a way that is not consistent with medical or social reasoning
What is drug abuse?
Earliest regulation included many loopholes and lack of enforcement abilities.
Drugs found in interstate commerce could not be labeled as curative if the claims were false and misleading.
What is Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Provides essential information about body parts and normal physical body function.
What is Anatomy and Physiology?
May be refilled 5 times in 6 months with a prescription authorization by a physician
What is schedule III?
The ability of the drug to produce the desired chemical change in the body
What is drug efficacy?
Has the responsibility of making the medical office aware of a patient's use of multiple medical facilities for prescriptions.
What is a Pharmacist?
Prevented fraudulent therapeutic claims by drug manufacturers.
What is Shirley Amendment of 1912.
Another name for prescription drugs
High potential for abuse
New prescription is required for a refill
What is schedule II?
Ensures the consumer receives drugs that meet the standards published in the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary
What is drug quality?
Pinpoint pupils, lethargy, or unusual behavior
What are signs of substance abuse?
Established the word "narcotic" and required the use of a stamp on the containers of these drugs.
What is Harrison Narcotic Act or Federal Narcotic Drug Act of 1914.
To give the medication by the route prescribed
What is administer?
Limited psychological and physical dependence
What is Schedule IV?
Specifies the correct active ingredient is present and is manufactured without excessive contaminants
What is drug purity?
Should be safeguarded at all times and not used as a notepad.
Required all prescriptions be labeled "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription".
Required warning labels on drug packaging.
What is Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951.
Must meet the same standards as legend drugs
Can we bought without a prescription
Over-the-Counter drugs