HLTH 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sulfanilamide, Morphine, Thalidomide
1 Oct 2018
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Drugs & society - hlth 353 - exam 1 notes. Chapter 3 - drug use, regulation and the law. Guidelines for controlling drug development and marketing. Society has the right to protect itself from the damaging impact of drug use. Society has the right to demand safe and effective drugs. The term patent medicines signified that ingredients were secret, not patented. The patent medicines of the late 1800s and early 1900s demonstrated the problems of insufficient regulation of the drug industry. The 1906 pure food and drug act. Required manufacturers to include on labels any ingredients that were deemed. Addictive and/or dangerous (alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, etc) marked the beginning of involvement by the government in drug manufacturing (fda) Did not prohibit distribution of dangerous preparations. Accuracy of manufacturers" therapeutic claims was not controlled by the pure food and drug act.
