The process of dispensing prescription drugs is usually as follows: receiving → reviewing → mixing → labeling → reviewing → issuing drugs.
A, prescription drugs
Prescription drugs are drugs that must be prescribed by a licensed physician or a licensed assistant with prescriptive authority before they can be purchased at a hospital pharmacy or drugstore. The vast majority of prescription drugs have certain toxic side effects, so they need to be used appropriately under the guidance of a doctor. The counterpart of prescription drugs is over-the-counter drugs, which can be purchased at pharmacies at will, and which generally have fewer side effects.
Prescription drugs usually have certain toxicity and other potential effects, and there are special requirements for the method and time of medication, which must be used under the guidance of a doctor. China's first batch of prescription medicines are 165 varieties of Western medicines in 23 categories and 160 varieties of proprietary Chinese medicines, but each variety of medicines contains different dosage forms.
And over-the-counter (OTC) drugs refer to drugs that patients themselves select, purchase and use themselves according to the instructions of the drugs, which have fewer and lighter toxic side effects and are also easy to detect, do not cause drug resistance and addiction, and have little interaction with other drugs, and have been used for many years in the clinic, with certain efficacy. OTC drugs are mainly used for milder, stable, and clearly diagnosed diseases, and OTC drugs are among those that can be purchased at the pharmacy at will.
Two, prescription drugs mostly belong to the following
1, new drugs on the market, its activity or side effects have to be further observed.
2, can produce dependence on certain drugs, such as morphine analgesics and some hypnotic valium drugs.
3, the drug itself is more toxic, such as anti-cancer drugs.
4, for the treatment of certain diseases require special drugs, such as cardiovascular disease drugs, must be confirmed by a physician after the diagnosis of a prescription and under the guidance of the physician to use. In addition, prescription drugs are only allowed to be advertised in specialized medical newspapers and magazines, and are not allowed to be advertised in the mass media.
Three prescription drugs
Prescription drugs include: captopril tablets, nifedipine tablets, nimodipine tablets. Special drugs also belong to the prescription drugs: all kinds of narcotic drugs, anticancer drugs and psychotropic drugs. Prescription drugs are in order to ensure the safety of medication, by the national health administrative department or audited, need to be sold by a physician or other medical professionals with the right to prescribe a prescription, and in the physician, pharmacist, or other medical professionals under the supervision or guidance of the use of drugs.