Drugs & Pharmacology In Sport Flashcards
Why shouldn’t you give anti-inflammatory ex in the first 24 hours after a significant sprain?
Anti-inflammatory works in brain for pain, but decreases inflammation and decreases fever. Anti-inflammatories affects platelets because it will decrease clotting.
Name some problems that can come up when using supplements.
- can be contaminated
- can be wrong dose if not regulated
Why are platelets essential post injury?
Bleeding creates a cast around the injury, but we tend to over bleed. The body needs to get rid of this.
4 different ways that drugs are named:
- chemical
- generic (ex. Acetaminophen, ibuprofin)
- trade names (ex. Tylenol, Motrin, Advil)
- generic drug (has something in front of generic name ex. Apo-doxycycline)
3 ways to classify drugs:
- chemical structure
- mechanism of action (ex. Beta blockers)
- legal classification of drugs (OTC vs prescription vs controlled substances)
What is the Food and Drugs Act (2020)?
- overarching legislation for food, drugs, cosmetics, and therapeutic devices (including general rules and advertising)
- part 1: food, drugs, cosmetics and devices
- part 2: administration and enforcement
What are the steps for drug approval?
- Preclinical testing (animals)
- Phase 1: clinical trial (healthy humans)
- Phase 2: clinical trial (test efficacy, side effects)
- Phase 3: clinical trial (efficacy, safety)
- Health Canada Process
- Phase 4: Clinical trial (post market surveillance)
What schedule drugs are now deleted due to change in legislation?
- schedule 5: propylhexedrine (stimulant)
- schedule 7: cannabis over 3 kg
- schedule 8: cannabis small amounts
What are schedule 1 drugs?
- narcotics
- cocaine
What are schedule 2 drugs?
Cannabis related
What are schedule 3 drugs?
- narcotic-like
- LSD
What are schedule 4 drugs?
Barbiturates
What are schedule 6 drugs?
Precursors
What are schedule 9 drugs?
Device to make pills or other medication
Define pharmacodynamics.
- effects of drug on the body
- mechanism of action (eg. Activation or blockage of cellular receptors)
Name some examples of mechanisms of action for drugs.
- inhibiting uptake, synthesis, storage
- increasing release
- blocking transmitter inactivation
- inhibiting enzymes
- inhibiting transport processes
- activating (agonist) or blocking (antagonist) receptors
What is the dose-response curve?
As we increase dose, the response increases until the response can’t go any higher. This is the case for almost every drug.
Define placebo.
- a therapeutic or adverse reaction that is not due to a pharmacological effect of the drug
- may be due to physiological reaction in anticipation (eg. Hormone release)
- commonly only subjective symptom response
Name and describe 3 multiple drug effects:
- additive (eg. 2 hypertensive medications)
- synergistic (effect is greater than additive, ex. 10+10 = 30)
- antagonistic (effect produces less of an effect - ex. Naloxone)
Name 4 Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs):
- side effects/sensitivities (not the same as allergies)
- overdose toxicity (taking a drug above its therapeutic range)
- allergic reactions
- drug interactions
Describe organ adverse reaction.
- usually issue around cytotoxicity
- liver (ex. acetaminophen)
- kidney (NSAIDs)
- liver, gut, heart (alcohol)
Why do some athletes need to be careful about taking anti-inflammatory ex around weigh in time?
They may retain water if they are using it for the first time
Define pharmacokinetics.
- how the body deals with the drug
- study of the time course of a drug and its metabolites in the body after administration by any route
What are the 4 steps of pharmacokinetics?
- Absorption
- Distribution
- Biotransformation
- Excretion
Describe drug absorption.
Process of drug movement from the administration site to the systemic circulation
Name some different routes of administration.
- oral (swallowed, sublingual, buccal)
- topical (eyes, ears, nose, skin (transdermal))
- vaginal, rectal
- injection (IV, IM, SQ, intra-articular, intra-cardiac)
- inhaled
Why would you not want to take some drugs orally?
Some drugs taken orally will be completely broken down in stomach, needs to be taken otherwise.
When would you use intravenous (IV) injection for a drug?
- want a big drug to work fast
- often done in the hospital setting
- risk of infection
What can you do if an oral drug cannot be taken because they are not awake?
Can be given rectally
Pros and cons of oral route of administration.
- convenient
- not in a rush
- can have side effects more than other routes
- may need increased doses vs other routes
When would you take a drugs sublingually?
- small dose/pill that is absorbed very quickly
- ex. Ativan to calm someone down
- membranes are very thin under the tongue
Name some factors that can affect absorption.
- solubility, particle size
- concentration
- circulation to the site of administration (increased with movement)
- surface area at the site of administration (determined by the route of administration)
- exercise - decreases gut blood flow, increases blood flow to muscle and skin
- ice (slow down) vs massage (speed up) of area where drug is applied
Name some factors that affect oral absorption of a drug.
- formulation (tablet, liquid, delayed release)
- stability to acid and enzymes
- motility of gut
- food in stomach (can delay or stop absorption)
- degree of first-pass metabolism
- lipid solubility
Why can taking anti-inflammatories continuously cause ulcers?
Anti-inflammatories stop mucus production so that the lining is not protected.
Define bioavailability.
Extent to which - and sometimes rate at which - the active moiety (drug or metabolite) enters systemic circulation, thereby gaining access to the site of action. How the blood gets to where it can be used.