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Chapter 01 Pharm
General Principals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology is what..... | Study of drugs, their action on living organisms |
| Drug Categories | Chemical, generic, official, trade or brand name |
| Orphan Drug Act | encourages development and marketing of products for rare diseases, the manufacture gets 7 years of exclusive marketing rights. Creates incentive to find drug to cure rare diseases |
| oral drugs: Three Phases | Pharmaceutics, Pharacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics |
| Pharmaceutics | dissolution of drug occurs, drugs must be soluble to be absorbed |
| Pharmacokinetics | absorption-depends on route in body distribution-distributed to various body tissues metabolism excretion |