Zusammenfassung der Ressource
use and abuse of drugs
- types of drugs
- medical
- paracetamol
- antibiotics
- morphine
- recreational
- legal
- caffeine
- alcohol
- illegal
- heroin
- cocaine
- performance enhancing
Anmerkungen:
- these improve a persons performance in sport
- anabolic steroids
Anmerkungen:
- stimulants
Anmerkungen:
- drug testing
- 1
- Drugs are tested on human cells and tissues
- However you cannot use human cells and
tissues to test drugs that affect multiple body
systems or the whole body system (blood)
- 2
- The next stage is to test it on live animals ...
- to see whether the drug works
- to see how harmful the drug is
- and to see what the best dosage is
- there is a law that says you must test
a new drug on 2 different live animals
Anmerkungen:
- there is then the debate about the cruelty on animal testing and the fact its for the greater good of humans
- 3
- if the the drug passes the
animal testings its then tested
on humans in clinical trials
- optimum dose
- dose of drug that is most effective
and has the least side effects
- next the optimum dose is found and
the drug is given to healthy patients to
see if it has any harmful side effects
- next, to test if the drug actually work, patients are
put in two groups. One group is given the actual new
drug and the other is given a placebo effect drug
- then the drug is sold commercially to
help people in need
- most of the clinical trials
are blind trials (with the
placebo drug) where the
patient doesn't know
- a double blind trial is where
the doctor doesn't know
either