FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Pharmacology
Document Summary
Chemical analysis for blood (not limited to blood eg stomach) Identify chemicals or substances that are harmful to the body. Study of harmful effects of drugs and poisons on living things. Legal application of toxicology to criminal and civil casesd. Part of science of pharmacology, which is the study of drugs and their harmful or benefiical effects on living things. Pharmacologists study all sorts of drugs and poisons. Wt happen when a drug is taken is known as pharmacodyanmics & at toxic doses it is named toxodynamics drugs can be administered by. Once drug enters body (or absorbed), it enters bolld stream. With exception of oral ingestion, drug user has no control over rate of absorption of drug circulation of drugs in bloodstream. Drugs generally have the most important effects on cns. Higher conc of drugs allows for mor3e pronounced effects circulation of drug.
