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Suggestions for improving drug therapy
Author(s) -
Friend Dale G.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt196672276
Subject(s) - drug , legislation , business , enforcement , counterfeit drugs , counterfeit , quality (philosophy) , medicine , drug control , pharmacology , law , intensive care medicine , risk analysis (engineering) , political science , philosophy , epistemology
The increasing use of drugs and the importance of drug therapy in medicine make it important that every means possible be taken to insure that drug therapy is of the highest quality. The food and drug laws have gone far to insure drugs of proper purity for use in medicine. Only a very small percentage of drugs now on the market are not up to the accepted standards. The recent legislation signed into law by the President in July of 1965 has taken another step forward in a campaign against counterfeit or useless drugs. As enforcement becomes more adequate and proper controls are brought to bear, there will undoubtedly be a reduction in the small percentage of impure and improperly labeled drugs. For many years, responsible drug firms have taken great pride in maintaining the highest degree of purity for their products and, as anyone who has knowledge in this field knows, they are very reliable indeed. When one puts faith in a product from a responsible pharmaceutical firm, he is assured that the drug will be exactly as described. He can be sure that a satisfactory preparation will be delivered to his patients. There are, however, other aspects of drug control which have not yet been approached in a manner which insures the highest quality of drug therapy.