Introduction to Pharmacology

Question 1

Process of drug movement to achieve drug action

Answer 1

Pharmacokinetics

Question 2

Non-prescription medications used safely without supervision

Answer 2

Over The Counter Drug

Question 3

This kind of drug is discovered but is not financially viable and has not yet been adopted by any drug company. It is usually used to treat a rare disease

Answer 3

Orphan Drug

Question 4

Chemicals are tested to determine whether they have effects

Answer 4

Preclinical Trial

Question 5

The process when the drug becomes available to body fluids and tissues

Answer 5

Distribution

Question 6

Drug reaches its HIGHEST blood concentration

Answer 6

Peak

Question 7

The movement of drug particles from the GI tract to body fluids by PASSIVE, ACTIVE absorption or pinocytosis

Answer 7

Absorption

Question 8

When body forms antibodies to a particular drug inducing a response in the subsequent exposure

Answer 8

Drug Allergy

Question 9

Defined as an altered or modified action or effect of a drug as a result of interaction with one or multiple drugs

Answer 9

Drug Interaction

Question 10

Excessive response to drugs

Answer 10

Hypersensitivity

Question 11

Undesired effects that may be unpleasant or even dangerous

Answer 11

Adverse effects

Question 12

Two or more drugs, one drug potentiates the other

Answer 12

Synergistic Drug Effect or Potentiation

Question 13

List of drugs prepared by DOH on the basis of health conditions in the Philippines as well as internationally accepted criteria.

Answer 13

Essential Drug List

Question 14

Pregnancy category where Human fetal risk is proven. There is risk on use of pregnant woman.

Answer 14

Category X

Question 15

Agonists

Answer 15

Initiates a response

Question 16

Drugs which produces insensibility, stupor, melancholy or dullness of mind, habit forming

Answer 16

Narcotics

Question 17

More severe or undesired drug effects

Answer 17

Adverse reactions

Question 18

Allows only lipid-soluble drug

Answer 18

Blood-Brain Barrier

Question 19

Republic Act 6675

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Generics Act of 1988

Question 20

The 10 Rights of Drug Administration

Answer 20

1. Right Client
2. Right Drug
3. Right Dose
4. Right Time
5. Right Route
6. Right Assessment
7. Right Documentation
8. Right Education
9. Right Evaluation
10. Right to Refuse

Question 21

Drugs with opium, cocoa leaf, heroine, morphine, LSD

Answer 21

Prohibited Drugs

Question 22

Republic Act 953

Answer 22

Narcotic Drug Act

Question 23

Republic Act 9165

Answer 23

Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002

Question 24

Relationship between the minimal versus the maximal amount of drug dose needed to produce the desired drug response

Answer 24

Dose response

Question 25

The time it takes for one half of the drug concentration to be eliminated

Answer 25

Half-Life

Question 26

Schedule IV

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Less abuse, limited dependence, anti-anxiety, medically accepted drugs

ex. Phenobarbital, benzodiazepines

Question 27

Name given by the manufacturer

Answer 27

Brand name

Question 28

Physiologic effects not related to the desired drug effects

Answer 28

Side effects

Question 29

Toxicity due to overdosing or drug accumulation

Answer 29

Toxic Effects

Question 30

Drugs act through receptors by binding to a receptor to produce or initiate a response or block a response

Answer 30

Receptor Theory