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TA 1344: A Brief Note On Dentistry And Pharmaceutical

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Dentistry and Pharmaceuticals Lacey Pascoe Concorde Career College DNTA 1344 Pascoe 1 Lacey Pascoe Mrs. Evans DNTA 1344 17 Jan. 2016 Dentistry and Pharmaceuticals Pharmacology is the study of all drugs, their properties, how they react with each other, and the actions of the drugs within the body. Medications are forever changing because new medications are created, there is new information and knowledge of the medications, and medications are always being altered. In my whole 32 years of life I have never realized how much dentistry is involved with pharmaceuticals. Since I have started a career in Dental Assisting, I have learned more of how medications are used in many aspects of dentistry. Before I had started …show more content…

One law was enacted in 1906: Pure Food and Drug Act- it is to control and regulate the composition, sale, and distribution of drugs. Before this law drugs were not regulated and drugs of varying compositions and purity were sold and many of them were very harmful to humans. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 1938- this allowed only the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have control of all food, cosmetics, and drugs sold. 1970: Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act- established to identify drugs according to five schedules of abuse potential. Controlled Substances Act- gives the power of enforcement of this act to the DEA, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, individuals who dispense drugs must have DEA-issued numbers to prescribe …show more content…

Pascoe 4 • Schedule III- drugs with a lower potential for abuse that those in Schedule II and have accepted medical uses (Tylenol III, barbiturates, stimulants and depressants not in Schedule II) • Schedule IV- drugs with less potential for abuse than those in Schedule III and also have acceptable medical uses (antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs and sedative drugs, valium, Ativan, Xanax, phenobarbital, Librium, Darvocet, Restoril, Ambien) • Schedule V- drugs with the least potential for abuse and may consist of a compound from other schedules in small amounts (antidiarrheal medicines or cough medicines, Phenergan with codeine, Robitussin-A-C, Tussi-Organidin, N.R., Donnagel-PG, Lomotil) There are many different ways of administering medications such as: • Oral: administration is the most common method of taking medications (tablets, capsules, pills, and liquids) patients have to swallow these

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