Exam 51: Principles of Pharmacology

Which of the following is the official source of drug standards in the United States and is published every five years?

Which of the following pertains to the length of time between dosing and the availability of a drug in the bloodstream?

The action of antihypertensive drugs is to ____.

A drug is prescribed to improve a life-threatening or serious condition, as with epinephrine for severe allergic reaction, in which type of drug therapy?

The process by which drug molecules are transformed into simpler products is called ____.

The study of what the body does to drugs is ________.

Most drugs are metabolized in the ____.

A nonprescription, or ________, drug is one the FDA has approved for use without a licensed healthcare practitioner's supervision.

A drug's therapeutic value is known as ______.

The therapeutic value of a medication is called its ________.

A software program that can be loaded onto the provider's smartphone or PDA and includes more than 3,300 brand and generic drugs is called _______.

The study of characteristics of natural drugs and their sources is ________.

The ________ name is the official name of a drug.

The process of transporting a drug from its administration site to its site of action is called _______; this term also pertains to the length of time between dosing and availability in the bloodstream.

Which drug is derived from a mineral source?

The study of poisons or the poisonous effects of drugs is which of the following?

A licensed practitioner's written order that authorizes the dispensing and sometimes the administering of drugs to a patient is a(n) ________.

Which of the following is the process of transporting a drug from its administration site to its site of action?

Which of the following are examples of plant-derived drugs?

Tomas is an overweight, 46-year-old patient who has just been diagnosed with high blood pressure. In addition to providing Tomas with educational material about diet and weight loss, which of the following categories of drugs might the physician prescribe for Tomas?