BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antacid, Analgesic, Phenacetin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Pain medication: prescription drugs, over the counter otc, 300 billion per year (u. s. ) Incidence how common is it: label or box, google, need both to evaluate risk. Indications: what to use for, many people take the wrong drug, many people take drugs unnecessarily, counter-indications, when you should not use, conditions, drug combinations, foods (cid:498)natural(cid:499) remedies. Pain relievers most common otc drug: 4. 1 billion per year (n. a. , 50 billion tablets (n. a. , 16000 tones/year, 500 dump trucks. Increase mucus production: aspirin (asa) causes acid damage in the stomach (opposite effect of prostaglandin) Naproxen: aka aleve, newer drug, very good for inflammation, best for athletic injuries, generic brand now available, relatively expensive. Top pain relievers in north america: acetaminophen 43, a. s. a. Ideal would be a compound that selectively inhibits cox-2 and not cox-1. In an effort to increase sales, merck presented only data from first 10 months of study to doctors.