The Drug And Drug Administration

Institutional Powers have always affected my life in many ways. The main institutional power that control both positive and negative consequences of my life would be the FDA the Food and Drug Administration. The first way they control my life is they regulate all human and veterinary drugs in our country. Second, the FDA is responsible for protecting the public health and products. Lastly, they supply and control the entire United States Food supply. I believe that this specific governmental institutional power is 100% the authority over my life. The FDA needs to care more about the general health of the public and take into consideration how they play a major factor in the health of our bodies, minds, and environment as well.

Antivirals are the treatment for HIV and presently there is no known cure. Treatment most often involves combinations of different drugs to avoid creating strains of the virus that are immune to single drug treatments (Mayo Clinic, 2013). The number of CD4 or T cells monitors treatment response. The viral load should be undetectable while undergoing antiviral therapy. The count is checked when treatment starts and usually monitored every 3-6 months. Even if someone has an undetectable viral load, the spreading of HIV is still a possibility.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is best known for its role on protecting the health of the public by making sure that food, medications are safe and effective. Especially when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, its mission is to regulate pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as the drug approval process. However, in the recent years, many arguments and controversy regarding drug development and regulation have risen. Drug advertisements make false and misleading claims, products are being put out on the market without any proof of safety, causing many unwanted incidents such as the Avandia incident and Vioxx incident, which could have been prevented in the first place.

The Food and Drug Administration, also known as the FDA or USFDA, is responsible for protecting and advocating public health. They are the official government agency that ensures our drug supply is safe and effective. This is achieved through the regulation and supervision of food safety, dietary supplements, veterinary products, cosmetics, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, prescription and pharmaceutical drugs that can be purchased over- the- counter.

* Origin of Drug: Dutch word droog meaning dry for dried herbs and plants that were the 1st medicine.

Food and drug administration is a department of U.S health and human services. It’s responsibility is to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs entering the market as well as to make sure that these medicines are quickly accessible to people. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been passed in 1938 to ensure that foods other than meat, poultry and fish are clinically hygienic and safe to eat. This act also requires that the food should be labelled according to its content. (FDA.org) Drugs and tobacco are also regulated by FDA and in 1996, FDA strictly regulated the use of tobacco products like nicotine, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, by children and adolescents because of the increase in diseases prevalence and tobacco addiction. Annually 40000 deaths are attributable to its use and most of them are of premature. Therefore the goal of FDA is to stop the tobacco addiction by minors and prevent the deaths and diseases due to nicotine addiction. (FDA vs Brown, n.d) This essay will cover the food and drug administration’s role in under and over regulating drugs and medicines and how it effects our economy, health care system and patients health and safety.

Food and Drug administration is a very important agency that has been apart of the government for over a hundred years it was founded in June of 1906.Though FDA can trace its origins back to the creation of the Agricultural Division in the Patent Office in 1848, its origins as a federal consumer protection agency began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act.This 1906 act was created because there was along standing abuse in the consumer marketplace.This part of the government was made by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley in good faith for the people.

The route of drug administration chosen might be dependent on a person's age because of its variants on the effects of the drugs used on them. For example, a child usually has a hard time swallowing pills so they instead would drink their medicine, it is one of those factors that would lead us to alternatives. It is the same for pregnant women and the elderly that have different effects on them, so they would have different routes of drugs.

The ability to become reflective in practice has become a necessary skill for health professionals. This is to ensure that health professionals are continuing with their daily learning and improving their practice. Reflective practice plays a big part in healthcare today and is becoming increasingly noticed.

The Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA regulates more than one trillion dollars’ worth of consumer goods. The FDA has many responsibilities including overseeing the production of safe food and the production of medicine. The FDA is responsible for making sure that everything that is being put into our bodies by distributors is safe.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) is a preventive measure against HIV for people that have a high risk of contracting the virus, not for people with the virus. In order to reduce the likelihood of catching HIV, PreP consists of taking the medication pill, Truvada, on a daily basis. Think of it as a birth control pill, in the sense of, if you miss a day the chances of getting pregnant are increased. Same goes with taking Truvada, effectiveness will definitely decrease if the medication isn’t taken on a strict daily regimen.

Women take the pill by mouth to prevent pregnancy and it is effective for up to 99.9% when taken in the right way. However, the pill has nothing to do with protecting the body against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV which is the virus that causes AIDS. The best protection from most STDs was provided by the latex male condom as what some people believe. The patch and the vaginal ring are other types of combined estrogen and progestin hormonal contraceptive. The Enovid-10, which was the first birth control pills, was manufactured by G.D. Searle and Company. It contained 9.85 milligrams of the artificial progrestational hormone norethynodrel and 0.15 milligrams of the estrogenic hormone mestranol. These dosages contain about 10 times

condom and by limiting or having less sexual partners. Avoid sharing needles for injection drugs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by taking PrEP daily a person can have a lower risk by more than 90% of getting HIV from sex and more than 70% from injection drug use. It proved that PrEP is more effective when you persistently taking it every single day because if you don’t take PrEP every day, there may not be sufficient medicine in your bloodstream to block HIV. Given the sufficient proof of high standard of effectiveness and a small risk, PrEP is gradually gaining popularity as a very successful prevention. According to Rebekah Webb, in 2012, the US Food and drug Administration (FDA) officially accept the

A person authorized to get ready, compound, and administer drugs upon composed request (medicine) from an authorized expert, for example, a doctor, dental specialist, or propelled pratice nurse attendant. A drug specialist is a social insurance proficient who coordinates with, counsels with, and some of the time exhorts the authorized expert concerning drugs.

Drugs are all fun and games until you watch someone you love turn into some you have never seen before. I was only 5 years old when i woke up one morning to get up for school to only see something laying on the table i knew that it wasn’t something good and it didn’t seem normal and since i had to take care of myself and make my own school lunch i knew right where the little bags where and gloves to be able to pick it up so it wouldn’t get on me, almost everything i picked up was something that she used the night before just to feel her little high so from then i decided to put the pill,needles,lighter and everything in a bag and take it to school, i knew it was brandi’s and i knew she needed help. I made sure i was quicker than lighting to get everything put in my bookbag so not only she wouldn’t hear me and wake up and so i didn’t have to deal with her. I remember every conversation i had with her it wasn’t ever her talking it was always the pills or the dope talking for her.