How do I find information about medication?
Your local pharmacist is a valuable resource to answer medication-related questions. Pharmacies are required to provide written information about prescriptions they are dispensing. Pharmaceutical companies have staff that can respond to questions from the general public.
Why is medication important?
Taking your medication as prescribed is important to controlling chronic conditions, treating temporary ones and overall health and well-being.
What are the 3 categories of medication?
The Act defines three categories of medicine: prescription only medicines (POM), which are available only from a pharmacist if prescribed by an appropriate practitioner; pharmacy medicines (P), available only from a pharmacist but without a prescription; and general sales list (GSL) medicines which may be bought from …
What are two uses of drugs?
A pharmaceutical drug, also called a medication or medicine, is a chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose a disease or to promote well-being. Traditionally drugs were obtained through extraction from medicinal plants, but more recently also by organic synthesis.
What are the four main purposes of medicine?
The goals of medicine encompass the relief of pain and suffering, the promotion of health and the prevention of disease, the forestalling of death and the promoting of a peaceful death, and the cure of disease when possible and the care of those who can not be cured.
What is the most important medicine?
Penicillin. Discovered in 1928 and put to use to cure infections in 1942, this is arguably the most important drug discovery in the history of medicine.
What are 10 types of drugs?
These include:
- alcohol.
- tobacco.
- cannabis.
- methamphetamines (e.g. MDMA) and other stimulants such as cocaine.
- new psychoactive substances – synthetic drugs.
- opioids, including heroin.
- the non-medical use of prescription drugs.
Why do medicines have two names?
They’re the names for the active ingredients. You may have noticed that every brand-name drug has a second name — for instance, Prozac® (fluoxetine). That second name, fluoxetine, is a name for the active ingredient, which is the same whatever the brand or generic form.
