D1 Intro to pharmaceutics

Question 1

what is pharmaceutics?

Answer 1

• the scientific discipline that covers the conversion of a drug substance into medicines suitable for administration by and to patients
• describes the design, manufacture and delivery of medicines

Question 2

what is a medicine?

Answer 2

• the drug and excipients

may also be called:
- dosage form (the type of medicine - can be solid, liquid or semi-solid)
- formulation (the composition and structure of the medicine)

Question 3

give some reasons as to why medicines should be designed specifically?

Answer 3

• patient acceptability
• different patients
• dose accuracy and uniformity
• stability
• desired drug action
• different routes of administration
• different biological barriers
• desired drug release
• high quality