Chapter 3: A History of Drug Policy in the U.S.

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Across
  1. 3. A form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention.
  2. 5. A narcotic; the primary active chemical in opium. Heroin is made from morphine.
  3. 6. Use of a prescription drug to treat a condition for which the drug has not received U.S. FDA approval.
  4. 8. Originally referred to medicines that were, in fact, treated as inventions and patented in Great Britain. In America, the term came to refer to medicines sold directly to the public.
  5. 10. The rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government.
Down
  1. 1. A clinical study that lacks a comparison group (i.e., a control group). This is included in Phase One of the FDA’s three phases of clinical investigation.
  2. 2. Approval to conduct clinical investigations on a new drug, filed with the FDA after animal tests are complete. Investigational New Drug.
  3. 4. A CNS stimulant and local anesthetic; the primary active chemical in coca.
  4. 7. United States Food and Drug Administration.
  5. 9. United States Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Department of Justice.