Role of Medicine

Journal #1

Recall the last 3 medications you have taken

What purpose were they taken for?

Did they work?

Different purposes people use medication for? Think of up to 5 reasons.

Medicine slogans

Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is

All day long all day strong

Nausea, heartburn, indigestion upset stomach relief

Life doesn’t stop for allergies works when you need it most

Nightime sniffling sneezing cough achey fever best sleep ever got cold medicine

Because your periods more than a pain

Painrelievers hostpitals use most

The headache medicine

Role of Medicine

Medicines are classified based on how they work in your body.

Medicines: drugs that are used to treat or prevent diseases or other conditions

Drugs: substances other than food that change the structure or function of the body or mind

Medicines treat or prevent illness 4 classifications

Prevent Disease

Fight Pathogens

Relieving Pain

Managing Chronic Conditions

Disease Prevention

Vaccines: a preparation that prevents a person from contracting a specific disease. Vaccines contain weakened or dead pathogens

that cause the disease. When injected into the body the vaccine produces antibodies that fight those pathogens. Your body also produces memory cells that recall how to make these antibodies.

Fight Pathogens

Antibiotics: class of drug that destroy disease-causing microorganisms, called bacteria.

When antibiotics were first introduced they were considered a miracle drug because they saved so many lives.

Relieving Pain

Most commonly used medicines are analgesics or pain relievers.

Analgesics range from relatively mild medicines such as aspirin, to strong narcotics, such as opium-based morphine and codeine.

Addiction to pain relieving medicines can be addictive. Patients who use these drugs can become physically or psychologically dependent on them.

Managing Chronic Conditions

These medicines maintain or restor health, offer people with chronic disease a higher level of wellness Allergy Medicine Body Regulating Medicine: Insulin, cardio Antidepressants Cancer Treatment Medicines

Taking Medications

Oral: taken by mouth

Topical: applied to the skin

Inhaled: delivered in mist or powder

Injected: delivered through shot goes straight to the blood stream

Reactions to Medications

Side effects, reactions to medicine other than the one intended.

INTERACTIONS Additive interaction: medicines work together

in a positive way. Synergistic effect: the interaction of two or

more medicines that results in a greater effect than when each medicine is taken alone.

Antagonist Interaction: effect of one medicine is canceled or reduced when taken with another medicine.

Tolerance and Withdrawl

When a person takes a medication for a long period of time, the body can become used to the medication. Problems may include: Tolerance: body becomes used to the effects of

a medicine. The body requires increasingly larger doses to produce desired effect.

Withdrawal: person stops using a medicine on which he or she has become physiologically dependent. Symptoms: severe headaches, vomiting, chills and cramps.

Medicine Misused

Medicine Misused: using a medicine in ways other than the intended use.

Failing to follow instructions Giving a prescribed medicine to a person for whom

it was not prescribed, or taking another persons med.

Taking too much or too little Taking a medicine longer or shorter than prescribed Discontinuing use of a medicine without informing

your health care provider Mixing medicines with knowledge of health care

provider.

Medicine Abuse

Medicine Abuse: intentionally taking medications for nonmedical reasons.

Some teens feel that since a medicine is a prescription or over the counter that it is safer than illegal drugs.

Abusing any medicine is DANGEROUS/ILLEGAL.

Teens should avoid using drugs to…

Lose weight or stay awake while studying

To fit in with peers Pill parties: teens mix whatever OTC and

prescription medicines are available. DANGEROUS!!!!

Avoid taking medicine that was prescribed to someone else. This is illegal and unsafe

Prescription Drug Abuse Clip

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3551567n&tag=related;photovideo