HTHS 2240 Exam 1 (Weber State) | Study Guide, Practice Questions & Health Sciences Review

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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

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