Chapter 3: A History of Drug Policy in the U.S.
Across
- 3. A form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention.
- 5. A narcotic; the primary active chemical in opium. Heroin is made from morphine.
- 6. Use of a prescription drug to treat a condition for which the drug has not received U.S. FDA approval.
- 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.
- 10. The rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government.
Down
- 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. Approval to conduct clinical investigations on a new drug, filed with the FDA after animal tests are complete. Investigational New Drug.
- 4. A CNS stimulant and local anesthetic; the primary active chemical in coca.
- 7. United States Food and Drug Administration.
- 9. United States Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Department of Justice.