- A
drug is any
chemical substance other than a
nutrient or an
essential dietary ingredient, which, when
administered to a
living organism,
produces a biological...
- medicine,
pharmaceutical drug,
medicinal drug or
simply drug) is a
drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or
prevent disease.
Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy)...
- The
illegal drug trade,
drug trafficking, or
narcotrafficking is a
global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture,
distribution and sale...
-
chemical name ethanol, is one of the most
widely used and
abused psychoactive drugs in the
world and
falls under the
depressant category.
Alcohol is classified...
- The
United States Food and
Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a
federal agency of the
Department of
Health and
Human Services. The FDA is responsible...
- The war on
drugs is the
policy of a
global campaign, led by the
United States federal government, of
drug prohibition,
military aid, and
military intervention...
- A
psychoactive drug, mind-altering
drug, or consciousness-altering
drug is a
chemical substance that
changes brain function and
results in alterations...
-
Drug rehabilitation is the
process of
medical or
psychotherapeutic treatment for
dependency on
psychoactive substances such as alcohol,
prescription drugs...
-
Druggability is a term used in
drug discovery to
describe a
biological target (such as a protein) that is
known to or is
predicted to bind with high affinity...
- A
prescription drug (also
prescription medication,
prescription medicine or prescription-only medication) is a
pharmaceutical drug that is
permitted to...
