Semisynthetic drugs - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

what ages are most affected by heroin overdose? : young adults (18-25 y/o) and middle adults what is the correlation between heroin and other drug use? : - 9/10 people who use heroin have used at least 1 other drug - 45% of people on heroin were addicted to prescription opioids what trends have occurred by reducing opioid prescriptions in last 5 years? : heroin use has gone up, so people are just switching to heroin and so people are ODing on heroin. how long does it take to OD on fenta...

Test Bank For Abrams’ Clinical Drug Therapy Rationales for Nursing Practice 12th Edition Geralyn Frandsen 1.Awoman diagnosed with obsessive–compulsive disorder has been prescribed oral paroxetine hydrochloride. What is the expected effect for this prescription? A. Curative effect on symptoms B. Systemic effect on symptoms C. Local effect on symptoms D. Parenteral effect on symptoms ANS: B Rationale: Drugs that produce systemic effects are taken into the body, circulated through the ...

chemical name correct answers relates to the chemical and molecular structure; meaningful to the pharmaceutical chemist but is rarely used because of its complexity contradiction correct answers any condition which makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable drug correct answers therapeutic agent; any substance, other than food, used in the prevention of diagnosis, alleviation, treatment or cure of disease generic name correct answers is often derived from the chemical name; c...

Pharmacology Ch. 31 Opioid Analgesics & Antagonistswhat are the major therapeutic uses of opioid drugs? - correct answer analgesics antitussives antidiarrheal what are partial opioid agonists? what is the prototype of a strong analgesic or full agonist? - correct answer -partials exert less analgesia than morphine -morphine is the prototype which drugs undergo extensive 1st pass metabolism? - correct answer morphine hydromorphone oxymorphone what is an opiate? - correct answer drug...

chemical name - ️️chemical and molecular structure but is rarely used because of its complexity contraindication - ️️any condition that makes a treatment or procedure inadvisable drug - ️️any substance that can be used in prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease generic name - ️️common name of medication hypersensitivity (allergy) - ️️abnormal sensitivity with an exaggerated response by the body to the stimulus of foreign agents indicat...

HCB TEST 3 EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS VERIFIED GRADED A+ chemical name chemical and molecular structure but is rarely used because of its complexity contraindication any condition that makes a treatment or procedure inadvisable drug any substance that can be used in prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease generic name common name of medication hypersensitivity (allergy) abnormal sensitivity with an exaggerated response by the body to the st...

What would the perfect antimicrobial drug have? - ANSWER Selectively toxic, microbicidal, remains potent long enough to be effective, doesn't lead to antimicrobial resistance, easily delivered to site of infection, reasonably priced the drug would directly kill the microbe - ANSWER microbicidal a drug that stops them from replicating - doesn't kill it but stops it - ANSWER microbistatic most antimicrobial drugs are made by ____ and ___ or are made to mimic products of ___ and ___ - AN...

Penicillin was considered a "miracle drug" for which of the following reasons? correct answer: It was the first antibiotic it does not affect eukaryotic cells It has selective toxicity It kills bacteria Most of the available antimicrobial agents are effective (useful) against: correct answer: Bacteria In what ways are semisynthetic penicillins and natural penicillins alike? correct answer: Both are based on B-lactam More than half of our antibiotics are: correct answer: Produce...

Test Bank For Abrams’ Clinical Drug Therapy Rationales for Nursing Practice 12th Edition Geralyn Frandsen A woman has been prescribed paroxetine hydrochloride, which is an antidepressant agent administered in pill form. The medication is administered for her obsessivecompulsive disorder. This medication will produce which of the following effects? A) Curative B) Systemic C) Local D) Parenteral Ans: B Feedback: Drugs that produce systemic effects are taken into the body, circulated...

Idiosyncratic reaction An abnormal and unexpected response to a medication, other than an allergic reaction, that is peculiar to an individual patient. The nurse is administering antihypertensive drugs to older adult patients. The nurse knows that which adverse effect is of most concern for the patient? Dry mouth Hypotension Restlessness Constipation restlessness Pharmacodynamics it examines the effect of the drug on the body Pharmacokinetics The study of what the body does to the drug Empir...