drugs

Any substance/chemical that enters the body and modifies the body or affects chemical reactions

Anything you take in your body and changes the way your body works

You could experience withdrawal symptoms

• Your body acts up

• You could shake and itch

• Physically seeing the body craving the medication

Categories of drugs

• Medicinal

  • Morphine (even though is also abused)

  • Antibiotics

• Recreational/drugs of abuse

  • Alcohol

  • Heroin

  • Weed

Antibiotics

• Treat bacterial infections

• How

  • Destroy the cell wall (make it leak or break it or rupture it)

  • Destroy cell membrane (ruptures as well)

    • All the contents of the bacteria comes out

    • The bacteria dies

  • Stops or inhibits protein synthesis

  • All the above facts do not happen in humans

Why do viral infections not heal with antibiotics

• Because viruses do not have any cellular structures

  • They are acellular

Antibiotic resistance

• When they no longer affect the bacteria

• Can be caused by excessive intake of antibiotics

• Doctor should prescribe only when necessary / wrongly prescribed

• When bacteria does not respond to antibiotic take

• Not completing the course

What is the interaction between the bacteria and antibiotic such that resistance happens

How does antibiotic resistance come about