Essays on Drugs Page 8

In recent years, there has been rapid growth in the number of Fast Dissolving / Disintegrating Tablet (FDT) product on the market. Fast Dissolving Tablets are solid tablets and designed to dissolve/disintegrate in the patient’s mouth within a few second or minutes, without the need to drink or chew. However, the fear of taking solid…

“Lung malignant neoplastic disease” is a correct medical term, but it is more commonly known as “lung cancer.” Lung cancer is a particularly deadly and common type of cancer. It is treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery, depending on the type of lung cancer and the stage of the disease. There is a need…

Merck, a pharmaceutical company, frequently features in television advertisements promoting their prescription medications. According to a source from www.cbsnews, from 1995 to 2001, they earned recognition for their development of 13 new drugs. One of these drugs was Vioxx, a painkiller designed to be gentler on the stomach compared to Pfizer’s Celebrex and Bextra. Despite…

Psychopharmacology  can  be  defined  as  the  study  of  changes  in  thinking,  mood,  behavior  and  sensation  via  intake  of  drugs  or  medications. Various  environments  we  are  surrounded  with  affect  human  experience  and  behavior.  Some  things,  which  an  individual  doesn’t  understand,  or  finds  difficult  to  cope  up  with,  frightens  him,  and  the  things,  which  he  finds  himself  acquainted …

Cytochrome P450 are considered to be the major enzymes which are responsible for the biotransformation of drugs. By now, legion researches have been carried to work the mechanism of these enzymes metabolising mark drugs. The purpose of this reappraisal is to sum up the general cognition of cytochrome P450 and the molecule mechanism in assorted…

Liver plays an important function in the metabolism of a big number of drugs and toxins. Hepatic drug metabolism involves various procedures, loosely classified as Phase 1 (functionalization) and Phase 2 (conjugation). Glucuronidation, catalyzed by UDP-glucuronosyl transferase (UGTs), plays a cardinal role in the Phase 2 metabolism of a big number of drugs, as well…

Introduction As a 12 year old pre-teen, I started experimenting with marijuana. I started because of the same reasons that most kids start, because my friends were all doing drugs. My drug abuse started really getting bad at about fourteen years of age. At 14, I was using marijuana about three times a day and…

lsdLSDLongo-VegaTo understand the ways that LSD affect the brain we must first discuss how the brain sends signals to the body. In the brain and the brain stem there are special cells called neurons. Neurons release a number of chemicals that are sent to various receptors. The receptors interpret chemical signals and use them to…

Cholinergic relates to the responses in assorted systems to the neuro-transmitter molecule Acetycholine ( ACh ) . A They are the protein that are for good attached to theA biological membrane or the built-in membrane proteinA ( IMP ) . If the set of response is seen where Ach is a normal sender it is…

This essay will examine the criteria that should be taken into account by the National Health Service (NHS) with regard to making funding decisions related to cancer drugs. It will first consider how the NHS currently reaches such decisions before focusing on if the opinion of the patients themselves should be a factor. This will…