Module Overview
Originated by: Dr Peter Petchner
The term ‘drugs’ is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed through a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological (and often psychological) change in the body. A pharmaceutical drug also called a medication or medicine, is a chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, or diagnose a disease or to promote well-being.
This module looks at the definition of neuropharmacology and what kind of chemical interventions are applied in the central nervous systems of healthy and diseased people.