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Prescription drugs : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton, David E., author.
- Series:
- Contemporary world issues.
- Contemporary world issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 343 pages) : illustrations.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book offers answers to essential questions about prescription drugs that are accessible to high school students, undergraduate students, general readers, and individuals interested in this important topic"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Background and History
- Drug Basics
- Drug Sources
- Drug Types
- Drug Nomenclature
- The Drug Approval Process
- Preclinical Testing
- Clinical Testing
- FDA Approval
- Unapproved Drugs
- Orphan Drugs
- Prescription Drugs in History
- The History of Pharmaceutics
- Narcotics
- Opiates
- Semi-Synthetic Opioids
- Synthetic Opioids
- Monitoring of Drug Use
- Conclusion
- References
- 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions
- Testing New Drugs
- Animal Experimentation
- Human Experimentation
- Testing Biases
- Reforming Drug Trial Inequities
- Prescription Drug Abuse
- Types of Prescription Drugs of Abuse
- Stimulants
- CNS Depressants
- Opioids
- The Cost of Prescription Drugs
- The Data
- Causes
- Corporate Expenses and Profits
- Other Causes
- Possible Solutions
- 3 Perspectives
- Introduction
- The Cork Board
- Kyle Citrin, Clay Knibbs, and Carter Soboleski
- Climate Change and Prescription Drugs: The Impacts of Increased Temperature on Public Health
- Drug Discovery: A Twentieth-Century Story of Scientific Curiosity, Persistence, and Creative Guesswork
- Will Naloxone Become a Real "Superhero"?
- Drugs and the Professional Bodybuilder
- The Significance of Statistics
- Prescription Drug Ads That Target Consumers
- The Human Brain
- The Second-Best Time
- Sick Full Time
- The Drug Supply Chain and the United States
- Can Information Technology Help Curb Prescription Drug Abuse?
- 4 Profiles
- Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
- Bayer AG
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Carl Durham (1892-1974)
- Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978)
- Paul Janssen (1926-2003)
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- William Proctor Jr. (1817-1874)
- Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841).
- Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin (1925-2014)
- Daniel B. Smith (1792-1883)
- 5 Data and Documents
- Data
- Table 5.1. Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, by Sex, Age, and Type of Drugs Involved, 1999-2017
- Table 5.2. Strategies Used by U.S. Adults to Reduce Cost of Prescription Drugs, 2013-2017
- Table 5.3. Descriptive Statistics on Prescription Drug Prices for Select Countries, 2018
- Table 5.4. Median Total Cost of Top-Selling Brand-Name Drugs, 2012-2017
- Table 5.5. Prescription Drug Use in the Past 30 Days, by Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin, and Age: United States, Selected Years 1988-1994through 2013-2016
- Table 5.6. Trends in Use of One or More Prescription Drugs in the Past 30 Days, by Age,2007-2016
- Table 5.7. Most Commonly Used Prescription Drug Types in the Past 30 Days, by Age Group, 2015-2016
- Documents
- Durham-Humphrey Amendment (1951)
- Controlled Substances Act (1970)
- Orphan Drug Act of 1983
- Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (1984)
- Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987
- State Doctor Shopping Laws (1990/2011)
- Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992)
- Animal Drug Availability Act (1996)
- Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008
- FDA Bad Ad Program (2010)
- United States ex rel. Michael Mullen v. AmerisourceBergen Corporation, et al. (2018),
- American Patients First (2018)
- Generic Drugs: Questions &
- Answers (2018)
- Association for Accessible Medicines v. Frosh (2018)
- Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (2020)
- The American Hospital Association v. Azar (2020)
- 6 Resources
- Books
- Articles
- Reports
- Internet
- 7 Chronology
- Glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9798216000631
- 9798216131854
- 9781440877735
- 1440877734
- OCLC:
- 1248601602
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