Chapter 2 - What Is A Drug?
Some questions have more than one correct answer, FYI.
- 1.Which product can be considered both drugs and cosmetics?
- A.
Fluoride toothpaste
- B.
Shampoo
- C.
Facial moisturizer
- D.
Deodorants
- 2.Who is empowered to regulate "devices"?
- A.
The FFCDA under the FDA
- B.
The FDA under the FFDCA
- C.
The DEA under the FFDCA
- D.
The FFDCA under the DEA
- 3.True or false: Dietary supplements are not drugs.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Into what two basic catagories do active ingredients fall?
- A.
Vegetable or mineral
- B.
Chemical or biologic
- C.
Toxic or benign
- D.
Natural or synthetic
- E.
Liquid or solid
- 5.What is the definition of a chemical active ingredient?
- A.
Large molecules because they are developed and manufactured by a chemical process
- B.
Small molecules because they consist of small protiens or peptides.
- C.
Small molecules because the chains they consist of are smaller than other naturally derived chains
- D.
Large molecules because the chains they consist of are larger than other naturally derived chains.
- 6.True or false: The protien or peptide chains that are the basis of biologic active incredients are naturally derived from inorganic material.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Which is NOT a common delivery method of drugs?
- A.
Absorbtion
- B.
Inhalation
- C.
Injection
- D.
The postal service
- E.
Parenteral
- 8.What is pharmacokinetics?
- A.
Pharmacokinetics explores what a drug does to the body/assesses the effects of a drug on the body.
- B.
A conglomeration of lots of syllables that have relatively little meaning to this reading.
- C.
Pharmacokinetics assesses the actions of the human body on the drug.
- 9.What does the acronym ADME stand for?
- A.
Active Drug Medical Expiration
- B.
It's nothing, you spelled it wrong, Beckett. You meant to write ACME, which stands for A Company that Makes Everything
- C.
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion
- D.
Active Duty Medical Extension
- E.
Association of Destination Management Executives
- 10.What is pharmacodynamics?
- A.
Pharmacodynamics explores what a drug does to the body/assesses the effects of a drug on the body.
- B.
Pharmacodynamics assesses the actions of the human body on the drug.
- C.
Dynamic pharmacology. Not to be confused with less than scintellating pharmacology.
- 11.Which is NOT an example of an excipient?
- A.
An ex-patriot
- B.
Flavors
- C.
Glidants
- D.
Active ingredient
- E.
Suspensing/dispersing agents
- 12.What is "mechanism of action"?
- A.
The way in which an API works in the body
- B.
The way in which the body acts on the API.
- 13.True or False: The class of a drug is the broadest way to catagorize a drug.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Pick the answer that contains, in order, a therapeutic area/catagory, a disease/risk factor, and a mechanism of action:
- A.
Insulin, type 2 diabetes, diabetes
- B.
Bacterial infection, anti infectives, anti histamines
- C.
Cardiovascular, rhinitis, SSRI's
- D.
Gastrointestinal, high cholesterol, hypertension
- E.
Central nervous system, depression, gastrophageal reflux disease
- 15.True or false: specialty products have a narrow indication and are often prescribed by a primary care physician.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Acute medications address:
- A.
Long term illnesses or symptoms
- B.
Short tem illness or symptoms
- C.
Serious, acute pain
- D.
Small problems that manifest with a narrow range of symptoms
- 17.An example of a branded generic drug is:
- A.
Ibuprofen
- B.
Advil
- C.
Quindal Expectorant
- 18.What happens when the patent on a drug expires?
- A.
No single source owns the manufacturing or marketing rights
- B.
The company that held the patent still owns the marketing rights, but other companies are allowed to manufacture the same drug
- C.
Other companies are able to market the drug, but they must buy the rights to manufacture it from the original patent-owning company.
- D.
Nothing
- 19.The FDA approval for a drug is based on:
- A.
Which company has the sneakiest lawyers
- B.
The demonstrated safety and toxicity
- C.
The balance between good and evil
- D.
How many side effects the drug has with relation to how safe and beneficial it is.
- E.
Evidence from clinical trials.
- 20.True or false: Physicians are allowed to prescribe drugs for off-label usage even though pharmacuetical companies are not allowed to promote such useages.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.What is the package insert?
- A.
Where the patient reciept is stored in the drug container.
- B.
An insert in the drug container that is identical to the FDA-approved label.
- C.
A piece of paper that explains the chemical composition of the product.
- D.
An insert in the drug container that contains relevent patient history as it pertains to the drug in question.
- 22.True or false: The package insert must be approved by the FDA.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.For how long is a drug patent effective?
- A.
7 years from date of filing
- B.
10 years from date of filing
- C.
15 years from date of filing
- D.
17 years from date of filing
- E.
20 years from date of filing
- 24.What is the most common reason that dramatically reduces the monitary value of a drug?
- A.
It gets pulled from the market.
- B.
It becomes FDA approved for more than one use.
- C.
It is forced to undergo more research and development.
- D.
The patent expires and generics saturate the market.
- 25.At what point in the lifecycle of a drug is the drug costing more than it is bringing in?
- A.
During discovery and development
- B.
During the launch
- C.
During the growth of the product
- D.
During the maturity of a product
- E.
At the point where the drug becomes obsolete.
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