Pills, Potions, and Poisons: How Drugs Work

by Trevor Stone and Gail Darlington

About half of all the medicines prescribed by doctors are not taken by their patients. One of the reasons most commonly given by patients for not taking drugs is that they feel unhappy about taking medicines which they do not understand and of which they are afraid. This book attempts to rectify this problem by showing in clear, non-technical language how medicines and other drugs work in the body to reduce the effects of disease. Most chapters include...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198609426
• ISBN13: 9780198609421
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.