Discourse on safe drug use: symbolic logics and ethical aspects.

Drug Safety : an International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Drug Experience
Sylvie Fainzang

Abstract

Drug safety is not a matter for healthcare professionals alone. Patients are also involved, at three different levels: (i) in the behaviours patients adopt to reduce the adverse effects of the drugs; (ii) in regard to what some doctors say to their patients about drug risks; and (iii) in what the pharmaceutical industry says about self-medication and risks. This article will examine these aspects on the basis of information gathered in France during anthropological studies on drug use. (i) Patients' concerns about reducing adverse effects give rise to a series of behaviours relating to drug use. Patients start with the identification of what they regard as a risk inherent in the substances or linked to the uncontrolled use of drugs, and try to neutralize the risk by modifying or modulating the prescriptions in line with various parameters. Dimensions as varied as the nature of the prescribed drugs, the quantity, the dosage and the preservation of certain functions or organs are taken into account, and patients follow their own rules of conduct in order to reduce risks. These dimensions bring into play characteristics of both the drug and the individual, and take into account the effects or the risks of drugs in their physical, ...Continue Reading

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Apr 4, 2014·Drug Safety : an International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Drug Experience·Sylvie Fainzang
Aug 5, 2015·Health Expectations : an International Journal of Public Participation in Health Care and Health Policy·Janet M Y CheungBandana Saini
May 19, 2016·Behavioral Sleep Medicine·Janet M Y CheungBandana Saini
Nov 17, 2010·Drug Safety : an International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Drug Experience·Priya Bahri
Jul 29, 2015·Fundamental & Clinical Pharmacology·Aurélia BerreniJean-Louis Montastruc

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