PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Transdermal Patch, Sublingual Administration, Nicotine Gum

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3403
• Professor: Tarry Ahuja

Document Summary

In greek: pharmacon means drug and kinetikos means putting in motion, the study of time dependency. Is the time course of a particular drug"s actions **know this for midterm** How much drug is in your blood at any specific time. Cmax = most concentration of, say, aspirin. In this diagram, there have been 4 administration of the drug. Lorazepam (24hrs) vs. triazolam (8hrs: to help you sleep, triazolam will be best because we sleep about 8-9 hours a night. You want your pill to last about 8 hours to help you sleep. Anything beyond that would result in prolonged sedation (wake up sleepy, rather than refreshed and non- drowsy) If you suffer from anxiety, lorazepam would be best, because anxiety doesn"t just last for a few hours. Enteral: oral administration (mouth, rectal administration (suppository) Parenteral: administration by inhalation (lungs, administration through mucous membranes (nose/mouth, administration through the skin (patch, administration by injection (iv, muscle, skin)