This document discusses the role and classifications of medicine. It explains that medicines are classified into four main categories: disease prevention through vaccines, fighting pathogens with antibiotics, relieving pain with analgesics, and managing chronic conditions with medicines like insulin or antidepressants. The document also covers how medicines are administered, potential reactions, interactions, tolerance, withdrawal, misuse, and abuse. It emphasizes that abusing medicines for nonmedical reasons is dangerous and illegal.

1. Role of
Medicine

2. 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.

3. 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
 Painrelievershostpitals use most
 The headache medicine

4. 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

5. Medicines treat or prevent illness
4 classifications
 Prevent Disease
 Fight Pathogens
 Relieving Pain
 Managing Chronic Conditions

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. Prescription Drug Abuse Clip
 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=355
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