Pharmacology test 1 (Ivy Tech) Questions With Complete Solutions

1906 Federal Food and Drug Act correct answer: outlawed the sale of adulterated or misbranded products 1914 Harrison Narcotic Act correct answer: put taxes on anyone that traded opium (bases of cocaine) 1970 Controlled Substance Act*** correct answer: put medications in 5 classes with different regulations; consolidates many laws regulating the manufacture and distribution of narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids, as well as chemicals used in production of controlled substances. 1983 Orphan Drug Act correct answer: pushed for research into medications to treat rare diseases 1991 Accelerated Drug Review correct answer: Pushed drugs through FDA process a little faster 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (privacy act) correct answer: keep insurance down 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act correct answer: provide information to blind and visually impaired 2010 Affordable care act correct answer: make health care more accessible to all citizens therapeutics correct answer: refers to the use of drugs and the method of their administration in the treatment of diseases pharmacology correct answer: the broadest term for the study or science of drugs traditional drugs correct answer: drugs made from chemicals biologic drugs correct answer: drugs made of living matter alternative therapies correct answer: any drug used to treat illness with out a scientific background (herbal medications) makes the rules correct answer: what does the FDA do in the drug approval process? schedule one correct answer: High potent- high abuse potential and dependency-heroin ecstasy- no written prescription schedule two correct answer: high abuse potential-no refills-ridilin, cocaine schedule three correct answer: moderate to low abuse potential- anabolism steroids and testosterone (up to 5 refills) schedule four correct answer: low abuse-Xanax, adavan (up to five refills) schedule five correct answer: lowest abuse- larica, Robitussin (up to five refills) phase one of approval correct answer: 20-30 people, healthy people, does it kill them phase two of approval correct answer: few hundred people with condition phase three of approval correct answer: thousands of people, how does it interact with other meds, doses