HTHS 2240 Exam 1 (Weber State) | Study Guide, Practice Questions & Health
Sciences Review
What are drugs used for? - ANS ✔✔treatment of a condition or malady
Define drug - ANS ✔✔derived from the Dutch word "droog" which means drug
Define toxicology - ANS ✔✔the study of toxic or poisonous drug effects
Define Clinical Pharmacology - ANS ✔✔the testing and therapeutic use of drugs
Definition of medicine - ANS ✔✔anything that is deliberately administered to prevent,
diagnose, or treat any condition or malady
What does the Rx symbol mean? - ANS ✔✔Prescription
What is a therapeutic use of a drug? - ANS ✔✔Antibiotics, analgesics, hormone replacement
therapy
What is a diagnostic use of a drug? - ANS ✔✔Thalium, radiopaque contrast
What is a preventative use of a drug? - ANS ✔✔vaccinations, motion sickness
What is a drug that comes from opium poppy? - ANS ✔✔Morphine
What is a drug that comes from willow tree bark? - ANS ✔✔Aspirin
, What is a drug that comes from the foxglove plant? - ANS ✔✔Digitalis(Lanoxin)
What is a drug that comes from botulism? - ANS ✔✔botulinum toxin/Botox
What is a drug that comes from the plant ephedra? - ANS ✔✔Ephedrine
Where does Premarin come from? - ANS ✔✔pregnant mares urine
What are the drugs used in Radiology? - ANS ✔✔Technetium, Thallium, Barium
What is scopolamine used for? - ANS ✔✔motion sickness
What plant is scopolamine derived from? - ANS ✔✔foxglove
What drugs used to be only patent medicine, but are now used today? Sometimes as
prescription - ANS ✔✔cocaine and opioids
What is patent medicine? - ANS ✔✔medicine before the first drug legislation was passed in
1906. It was not regulated and highly dangerous
What was the first legislation in terms of drug regulation? - ANS ✔✔Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906
What was the drug that led to the passing of the first Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act? - ANS
✔✔Sulfanilamide
When was the passing of the first Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act? - ANS ✔✔1938
Sciences Review
What are drugs used for? - ANS ✔✔treatment of a condition or malady
Define drug - ANS ✔✔derived from the Dutch word "droog" which means drug
Define toxicology - ANS ✔✔the study of toxic or poisonous drug effects
Define Clinical Pharmacology - ANS ✔✔the testing and therapeutic use of drugs
Definition of medicine - ANS ✔✔anything that is deliberately administered to prevent,
diagnose, or treat any condition or malady
What does the Rx symbol mean? - ANS ✔✔Prescription
What is a therapeutic use of a drug? - ANS ✔✔Antibiotics, analgesics, hormone replacement
therapy
What is a diagnostic use of a drug? - ANS ✔✔Thalium, radiopaque contrast
What is a preventative use of a drug? - ANS ✔✔vaccinations, motion sickness
What is a drug that comes from opium poppy? - ANS ✔✔Morphine
What is a drug that comes from willow tree bark? - ANS ✔✔Aspirin
, What is a drug that comes from the foxglove plant? - ANS ✔✔Digitalis(Lanoxin)
What is a drug that comes from botulism? - ANS ✔✔botulinum toxin/Botox
What is a drug that comes from the plant ephedra? - ANS ✔✔Ephedrine
Where does Premarin come from? - ANS ✔✔pregnant mares urine
What are the drugs used in Radiology? - ANS ✔✔Technetium, Thallium, Barium
What is scopolamine used for? - ANS ✔✔motion sickness
What plant is scopolamine derived from? - ANS ✔✔foxglove
What drugs used to be only patent medicine, but are now used today? Sometimes as
prescription - ANS ✔✔cocaine and opioids
What is patent medicine? - ANS ✔✔medicine before the first drug legislation was passed in
1906. It was not regulated and highly dangerous
What was the first legislation in terms of drug regulation? - ANS ✔✔Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906
What was the drug that led to the passing of the first Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act? - ANS
✔✔Sulfanilamide
When was the passing of the first Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act? - ANS ✔✔1938
