Drugs

Drugs

Terms in relation to substances, other than food, that have medicinal, intoxicating, performance enhancing, or other effects when put into the body of a human or animal.

Industry: Pharmaceutical

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Drugs

A fictional hallucinogenic drug created by fermenting human waste. Despite being fictional, some news outlets ran storeys in 2007 and 2008 stating that it was a popular drug in Zambia and that it was ...

Nootropic

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

A category of drugs that enhance mental functions, giving them the nickname of 'smart drugs'. Most of them are legal and have mild success in improving cognitive ability, and are mainly used by ...

Bath salts

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

A powder substance also known as Ivory Wave, Vanilla Sky and Blue Magic, which is legally available in most countries, and can have hallucinogenic and even fatal effects. It is often mistakenly ...

Therapeutic equivalence (TE) codes

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

The coding system for therapeutic equivalence evaluations allows users to determine whether FDA has evaluated a particular approved product as therapeutically equivalent to other pharmaceutically ...

Therapeutic equivalence (TE)

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

Drug products classified as therapeutically equivalent can be substituted with the full expectation that the substituted product will produce the same clinical effect and safety profile as the ...

Supplement number

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

A supplement number is associated with an existing FDA New Drug Application (NDA) number. Companies are allowed to make changes to drugs or their labels after they have been approved. To change a ...

Tentative approval

Pharmaceutical; Drugs

If a generic drug product is ready for approval before the expiration of any patents or exclusivities accorded to the reference listed drug product, FDA issues a tentative approval letter to the ...