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        | What's the most common description of a drug's duration of action? |  | Definition 
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        | medications that require metabolism to produce their effects |  | 
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        | How is a drug changed so that it's more easily excreted from the body? |  | Definition 
 
        | changed from lipid soluble to water soluble so that kidneys can easily excrete it |  | 
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        | What is the primary site of drug metabolism? |  | Definition 
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        | Which organs receive the highest exposure to absorbed drugs? |  | Definition 
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        | What is the simplest factor determining drug distribution? |  | Definition 
 
        | amount of blood flow to body tissues |  | 
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        | Which parenteral route of drug administration produces fastest onset of action? |  | Definition 
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        | What are the 3 broad categories of routes of drug administration? |  | Definition 
 
        | enteral, topical, parenteral |  | 
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        | What is the primary pharmacokinetic process determining the onset of drug action? |  | Definition 
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        | What are the four processes of pharmacokinetics? |  | Definition 
 
        | absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion |  | 
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        | What does pharmacokinetics focus on? |  | Definition 
 
        | what the body does to drugs after they are administered |  | 
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        | What is the typical length of exclusivity for a new drug? |  | Definition 
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        | What are the conditions for which a drug is approved? |  | Definition 
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        | application of drugs for the purpose of disease prevention and treatment of suffering |  | 
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        | What is stage 4 of the drug approval process? |  | Definition 
 
        | postmarketing surveillance |  | 
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        | What was the first comprehensive drug standards publication? |  | Definition 
 
        | U.S. Pharmacopeia in 1820 (USP) |  | 
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        | What did the Sherley Amendment to the PFDA do? |  | Definition 
 
        | prohibit sale of drugs w/ false therapeutic claims |  | 
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        | What was the first national law passed to regulate drugs and what did it attempt to do? |  | Definition 
 
        | Drug Importation act (1848)- stop entry of unsafe drugs into U.S. |  | 
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        | What is the rate/extent to which the active ingredient is absorbed from a drug and becomes available at site of drug action? |  | Definition 
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        | What are drugs with more than one active generic ingredient? |  | Definition 
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        | What did the National Formulary (NF) focus on originally? |  | Definition 
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        | How many phases are there in the drug trial process? |  | Definition 
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        | What are phases 1,2,3 of clinical trials of a drug focused on? |  | Definition 
 
        | 1. safety 2. effectiveness 3. potential drug-drug interactions |  | 
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        | What was passed in 1992 requiring drug/biologic manufacturers to provide yearly product user fees? |  | Definition 
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        | What is the key difference between therapeutic and pharmacologic classification of drugs? |  | Definition 
 
        | therapeutic describes what's being treated, pharmacologic describes how drug acts |  | 
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        | What is a prototype drug? |  | Definition 
 
        | the drug to which all others in a class are compared |  | 
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